• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    This is misinformation and a fake quote. What he actually said on that day was:

    About the capitalist states, it doesn’t depend on you whether or not we exist. If you don’t like us, don’t accept our invitations, and don’t invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

    “We will bury you,” was a poor translation. What he meant (which is pretty clear from context) was more like, “We will outlast you,” or “We will be there at your funeral.” He never said anything about “We will take down America without firing a shot” or “We will bury America from within” (how do you “bury someone from within,” anyway?).

    Khuschev’s strategy towards the West was called, “peaceful coexistence,” the concept being that it wasn’t necessary to take active steps towards overthrowing Western governments, instead seeking to establish an ammenable working relationship, the belief being that the Soviet system would win out in time while the capitalist system would eventually decay and the proletariat of Western nations would eventually radicalize and rise up on their own. You can say that this wasn’t their real belief or whatever, but it was a major contributing factor towards the Sino-Soviet split, and they were willing to stand by that line to the point of alienating other communist countries.

    But regardless of whether you agree with that interpretation or not, this quote isn’t just misinterpreting the quote, it’s outright lying about what was said.

    • Tyfud@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      This is a lot of MAGA like propaganda by a thoroughly disgraced crazy person talking to a conspiracy theorist who both ended up going batshit insane in the 80’s.

      This video should not be taken seriously. I watched it, and it’s pretty much conspiracy laden ultra right wing nonsense.

      Like, if Alex Jones was around in the 80’s, this would be a clip from his show.

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Too bad humanity isn’t in the habit of listening to warnings.

      So annoying, because things don’t need to be shit.