“We Will Bury You” — How A Mistranslation Almost Started WW3
And the story of the man behind those fateful words
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5 min readJul 14, 2020
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On November 18th, 1956, Nikita Khrushchev uttered the words that would set relations between the Soviet Union and the United States back a decade. At the Polish embassy in Moscow, to a room full of western diplomats, he proclaimed “we will bury you”.
