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Lint Head

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6. I makes me wonder if that threat was not ever really taken seriously. Two years after

Reply to WhiteTara (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 10, 2016, 07:16 PM

Dec 2016

Khrushchev made the 'we will bury you' comment and banged his shoe the world could have become radiated via a nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. So the people who poo poo this are playing with radiant fire.

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Krushchev bangs his shoe and shouts in Russian, "We will bury you!" Well? [View all] Lint Head Dec 2016 OP

It took awhile but it looks like they're about to do it. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2016 #1

We must be old. I posted about this earlier WhiteTara Dec 2016 #2

Well at least there was no reason to duck and cover under our desks. gordianot Dec 2016 #4

I makes me wonder if that threat was not ever really taken seriously. Two years after Lint Head Dec 2016 #6

To all the Cold War warriors of the past it was Russia. gordianot Dec 2016 #3

They'll be burying themselves in the process. Bradical79 Dec 2016 #5

This worries me greatly. Lint Head Dec 2016 #7

yeah, looks like he was right. nt raccoon Dec 2016 #8

I actually remember that. dumbcat Dec 2016 #9