 thumb|170px|nikita khrushchev, 1961 "we will bury you!" (, transliterated as mi vas pokhoronim!) is a phrase that was used by soviet premier nikita khrushchev while addressing western ambassadors at a reception at the polish embassy in moscow on november 18, 1956."we will bury you!", time magazine, november 26, 1956"khrushchev tirade again irks envoys", the new york times, nov. 19, 1956, p. 1.the quote, cited on bartleby.com and quotationspage.com. the phrase was originally translated into english by khrushchev's personal interpreter viktor sukhodrev. ==history== the actual verbal context was: "whether you like it or not, history is on our side. we will dig you in" ("ÐÑÐ°Ð²Ð¸ÑÑÑ Ð²Ð°Ð¼ Ð¸Ð»Ð¸ Ð½ÐµÑ, Ð½Ð¾ Ð¸ÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ¸Ñ Ð½Ð° Ð½Ð°ÑÐµÐ¹ ÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ¾Ð½Ðµ. ÐÑ Ð²Ð°Ñ Ð·Ð°ÐºÐ¾Ð¿Ð°ÐµÐ¼"). in his subsequent public speech khrushchev declared: "[...] we must take a shovel and dig a deep grave, and bury colonialism as deep as we can".nikita sergeevich khrushchev, sergeÄ­ khrushchev, george shriver, stephen shenfield. memoirs of nikita khrushchev: statesman, 1953-1964, penn state press, 2007, p. 893 later, on august 24, 1963, khrushchev remarked in his speech in yugoslavia, "i once said, 'we will bury you,' and i got into trouble with it. of course we will not bury you with a shovel. your own working class will bury you,"nikita khrushchev on quotationspage.com a reference to the marxist saying, "the proletariat is the undertaker of capitalism", based on the concluding statement in chapter 1 of the communist manifesto: "what the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable." khrushchev repeated this marxist thesis at a meeting with journalists in the us in september 1959. many americans interpreted the quote as a nuclear threat.james stuart olson, historical dictionary of the 1950s, greenwood publishing group, 2000, p. 157 some authors suggest that an alternate translation is "we shall be present at your funeral" or "we shall outlive you". moshe lewin, [http://books.google
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