Khruschev said “we will take America without firing a shot.”
Nope. Khruschev said, “We will bury you from within!”
I remember his speech. He drove by our home in a huge
motorcade on a visit to California around 1960.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Did_Nikita_Khrushchev_say_we_will_bury_you_from_within
‘November 1956
During a diplomatic reception... Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev told
Western diplomats:
“About the capitalist states, it doesn’t depend on you whether we
(Soviet Union) 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 our not, history is on our side. We will bury you.”’
source: U.S. Department of Energy Timeline
http://www.dpi.anl.gov/dpi2/timelines/1950s.htm#October 1956
Additional sources:
‘Nikita Khrushchev told Western diplomats in November 1956, “History
is on our side. We will bury you.”’
source: Foreign Affairs, 1990
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19900901faessay6035/flora-lewis/bringing-in-the-east.html
“He said “we will bury you” at a reception for Wladyslaw Gomulka at
the Polish embassy in Moscow on November 18, 1956”
source: Nevadalabor.com
http://www.nevadalabor.com/barbwire/barb97/barb3-30-97.html
I will elaborate...
When I heard Khruschev say, “We will bury you from
within!” on a TV news broadcast (I believe), I asked
my Mother what that meant. She was a John Bircher
so she was very well informed. In fact, she wore
tinfoil way before it was kewl. Anyway... She said
that communists wanted to take over our country and
they would do it by inserting themselves into positions
of power in the area of public education, the government
and I believe she talked about Unions as well.
I was six years old at the time. I will never forget
K’s words nor my mother’s astute explanation. Now I
have lived long enough to see that the plan has nearly
been accomplished...
... without firing a single shot.