Khrushchev's bury remark

[Marta Sherwood-Pike]

Mistranslation isn't exactly the right term, but isn't this colloquial
expression equivalent to the English "I'll bring flowers to your funeral,"
meaning, in both cases, at the rate you're going, I/we expect to outlive
you.  Martha Sherwood

On Sat, 6 May 2000, Scott Petersen wrote:

> Can anyone with this?
>
> I have seen many times that Khrushchev's remark that the Soviet Union would
> bury the West was a mistranslation; that he actually said that the SU would
> be at the grave of the West, i.e. would outlive the West. Lynn Visson gives
> the Russian as "my vas poxoronim" (_From Russian into English_, Ardis
> Press).
>
> Is there anywhere that gives more details about this incident? A fuller
> quote? The context in which it was said?
>
> TIA.
>
> Scott Petersen
>
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