"We Will Bury You!" Nikita Khruschev 1956

     I woke up this morning with the TV memory of Nikita Khruschev shouting, “We will bury you!” back during the Soviet era. What did we do to change the rhetoric then, I wondered; both our countries had nuclear arsenals, so I went on-line to find it.

    The possibility of nuclear war was on everyone's minds, and Khruschev's statement, delivered with such fervor, sounded like a distinct threat when in fact he was staging a bit of bravado about communism's superiority over democracy. 

https://www.rbth.com/history/334638-we-will-bury-you-khrushchev

    Sting’s original 1985 song, "Russians," was on the site as well, and the lyric, “It's such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children too,” broke my heart so much so that I sent it to a number of my contacts and called three local radio stations with requests to play it. 

    Jackie put it on Facebook — then I received a reply text from my daughter that Sting had just recently put 'Russians' out again, https://youtu.be/IW0Wq-t4kSQ I had no previous knowledge of this occurrence. 

    We're back to that preoccupation now. Back to war and death played out on the TV as it was during the Vietnam War years, enemy soldier body counts not withstanding as in this war and sadly others, civilian deaths daily mount to exceed them.

    I remembered watching the 1984 Olympics then recognizing the same majestic buildings, in 1992-1996, during TV coverage of the Serbian/Bosnian War and the siege of Sarajevo; the buildings being bombed and the people living in despair on the streets. https://cepa.org/the-lesson-of-sarajevo-putin-cant-win/

    The sight brought to mind again, on September 11th, 2001, as heavy clouds of dust and gas embroiled the streets, and citizens of New York City ran for their lives, and I thought, 

    "Terror has finally happened to us as visited on the streets of Europe and the rest of the world! What will happen next??"

     

Pray it doesn't happen again.