Thread: An alternative view of the USA & some other countries

Originally Posted by fortheether

Until a minute ago I thought Nikita Khrushchev said when referring to the USA "We will bury you", but I looked it up:

We will bury you - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

which says he didn't say it. Most Americans think he said it.

In the USSR even a better story circulated: he said it at the UN meeting, yelling and banging his shoe upon the desk to make his point more clear.
I don't know how many people actually believed that, but I did hear several people mentioning it as if it were a fact.

Originally Posted by E-learner

In the USSR even a better story circulated: he said it at the UN meeting, yelling and banging his shoe upon the desk to make his point more clear.
I don't know how many people actually believed that, but I did hear several people mentioning it as if it were a fact.