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From: faustus@ucbvax.ARPA (Wayne Christopher)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Character attacks on Ronald Reagan
Message-ID: <1791@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 3-Sep-84 13:03:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  3 13:03:19 1984
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>>> When Kruschev said "We will bury capitalism", he said it in Russian.
>>> In Russian, this use of `bury' is an idiom meaning `outlive'.
>>
>> You're in the wrong newsgroup with this item... Net.jokes might
>> be a bit closer. Or maybe net.self-delusion...
>>
>>        Wayne
>
> Do you speak Russian?  Have you talked to anyone who does?  Do you
> care?
>
> Frankly, I get the impression that you'll go on believing what you
> want to believe.  ("Don't confuse me with the facts!")  It's funny
> that you should mention net.self-delusion.
>
> -- 
>
> Alan S. Driscoll
> AT&T Bell Laboratories

I don't care what the exact translation of this statement is.
The point you were trying to make with this was that Kruschev
didn't in fact want to violently overcome the capitalist world,
but just had the beilef that communism would "outlive"
capitalism without destroying it.  If this isn't self delusion,
I don't know what it.

	Wayne