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UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

I remember this speech. It was a bombshell!

I was nineteen and at MIT. I had grown up with the 'red menace' and 'duck and cover'.

We had done our own demonizing of Stalin.

Now, the blunt and scary Kruschev says the unthinkable; let alone the unsayable!

It was the beginning of the dissidents.

They tried to put the genie back into the bottle but they could not.

How a Speech Won the Cold War

A turning point, indeed.

Kruschev was scary. He came to the US to tell us that he would bury us. We didn't believe him but.............

Little did we all know where his overblown rhetoric would lead.

I guess we all live through interesting times.

I am sure grateful for mine. What a ride.