[net.politics] Reagan Joke, Star Wars Defense...

dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (08/31/84)

>[Kevin D. Kissell]
>I don't think unilateral disarmament is a good idea.  However, I take exception
>to casual statements like:
>
>> Nah, the expressed goal of the Russian government is only to take over the
>> world.
>>                                          (Rick Hawkins @ Olivetti ATC)
>
>Can someone cite me a reference to such an expression of this goal,
>made by the Soviet government within the last thirty years?

Well, this reference does not (perhaps) apply to the whole world,
but back in '64 Khruschev (sp?) said:

	"We will bury you."



The relation to Reagan's joke?    
Khruschev wasn't joking.

(that's not to defend Reagan for his remark.  It was stupid.)
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