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Who was the Soviet leader who said of the West 'We will bury you'?
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Nikita Khrushchev, then-premier of the Soviet Union, made a remark during a meeting with the Western diplomats on November 18, 1956 in Moscow, that was interpreted as telling the Western nations "We will bury you". The actual phrase was closer to "We will dig you in", meaning that Communism would outlast Western democracy. During the Cold War between the US and the USSR, it was widely reported as a threat and evidence of the hostile and imperial intentions of the Soviets.
Khruschev maintained his reputation as an erratic bully when he later attempted to bang his shoe on a lectern at the UN General Assembly, blurting out an idiomatic Russian threat that roughly translates as "We will show you", but because of its uniqueness, was, once again, translated as "We will bury you" by the dumbfounded translator. It is this incident that most stuck in the collective memory of the West.
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