A fulfillment of Khrushchev’s prophecy
By Clonnie Yearout
Speaking at the Polish Embassy in Moscow in 1956, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sent chills down the spines of free people around the world when he said, “Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.”
Khrushchev repeated his warning in other settings over the years, but his words never lost their ominous tone. In subsequent years, the United States and the Soviet Union raced to outpace each other in the stockpiling of nuclear weapons, and Americans routinely discussed how to survive nuclear attacks. Fallout shelters were constructed, and the government stored civil defense items in public buildings.
Yearout, of Roanoke, is a retired public employee.
February 20, 2013 - 6:23 AM
Oh for the days when Americans were made of sterner stuff and feared no man or idea. C’est la vie, Tels étaient les jours!
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Why your ideas can only have merit if they undercut or savage someone else’s is a sad indictment, but one well deserved.
Excellent article. The dialectic march of the lemmings to the cliff (but with a song in “our” hearts).
#2 “Excellent article”? Eh, I’ll consider the source. As for me, I really don’t see Mr. Yearout’s “I’ve got mine so to hell with everybody else” tirade as being so “excellent”.
Steven, I think it all depends on who you believe “the lemmings” are. This world has managed to keep turning with the curmudgeons screaming that ‘the progressive people are ruining it’ for a very long time. I predict it will continue to do so. Progress has always been in spite of some people, and thanks to others.
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When your world view is shaped by a fiction novel written by an unstable woman who ended up beholden to the very “forces” she so despised, it is not us who are “the lemmings” and we are not headed for any “cliff”. We do however, have a song in our hearts.