Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site vu-vlsi.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!burdvax!psuvax1!vu-vlsi!williams From: williams@vu-vlsi.UUCP ( Student) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Russian quotes Message-ID: <157@vu-vlsi.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 18:09:31 EST Article-I.D.: vu-vlsi.157 Posted: Tue Dec 3 18:09:31 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 10-Dec-85 01:54:41 EST Organization: Villanova Univ. EE Dept. Lines: 32 The "We will bury you" quote has seemed to have created quite a conversation in this group. I wonder if it is deserving of all this attention.(?) I came across this quote a while back and I doubt there is a translation problem in this case. It makes "We will bury you" seem quite mild in comparison. "A war with mercy between communism and capitalism is inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our moment will come in twenty to thirty years time. To win we will naturally have to have the element of suprise on our side. So the western bourgeosie will have to be put to sleep. We will, therefore, have to launch the most spectacular peace movements the world has ever known. They will contain electrifying proposals and extraordinary concessions. The capitalist countries, decadent and stupid, will cooperate with joy in their own destruction. They will jump at the chance of friendship and business. And when their guard is down, we will crush them with our clenched fist." -- Dimitri Z. Manuilski Former President United Nations Security Council General Council The recent '50% reduction offer' sounds like an 'electrifying proposals' to me... Any comments? -taw "Are you Listening?" allegra!\ "Feed Jane Fonda to the Whales" pyrnj!vu-vlsi!williams topaz!/