Khrushchev's bury remark

[Francoise Rosset]

Well, from a purely personal point of view, I like "We'll be dancing
on your graves," which is not as aggressively and easily misunderstood
as "we'll bury you," but still packs a nice political punch.
Then again, not being a native of English, I may be making up this
idiom entirely. I do that sometimes ...

And I think D.P. is absolutely right that we need to look at the history
and the context, not to mention at what people actually said !!
True, the American interpretation matters, but not because it was justified.
In this case it was -- as common to both sides then -- misguided and rather
narcissistic, and conveniently bolstered the feeling that the Bad Guys
were just itching to hit the U.S. To me the American interpretation is
a more telling symptom of cold war mentality than what NSK said.
-FR

Francoise Rosset                          phone:  (508) 286-3696
Department of Russian                     fax:    (508) 286-3640
Wheaton College                           e-mail: frosset at wheatonma.edu
Norton, Massachusetts 02766

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