Khrushchev's words and his shoe banging

[Natalia Samoilova]

Those who follow the discussion of Khrushchev's banging & swearing might be interested in the interview with the "Kremlin interpreter" V.Sukhodrev who witnessed the shoe banging incident sitting in the back row.  In this interview he also tells about Kuz'kina mat', though he was not present on this occasion. Interestingly, he says that it turned out that Khrushchev had his own interpretation of this expression, not the one you can find in the dictionary - simply "you'll see something you've never seen before".

The text of the interview is at http://trworkshop.net/faces/sukhodrev.htm

Natalia Samoilova.

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