Was Khrushchev's 'We will bury you' a threat of war?
Bah! Fools twist my words like a pretzel! When I said 'we will bury you,' I was talking about economics, about ideology. We, the socialist system, would outproduce capitalism, out-innovate them, prove our system superior through sheer progress and abundance. We would bury their decaying system under a mountain of our achievements, of better living standards for all. It was about historical inevitability, about the strength of our communist future, not about launching missiles. Let them have their fleeting prosperity; our future is solid, like a well-built tractor.
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