THE BOOK OF
RUSSKIES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF THE MOTHERLAND
Khrushchev bangs his shoe on the table
Chapter 24
Things went so well under bKhrushchev that he thought it might finally be time for Russia to become cthe Chosen Nation,
2Even more Chosen than the Americans,
3Who knew practically nothing about misery,
4And could probably be intimidated by dRussian technological superiority,
5Like the time when Khrushchev banged his shoe on the table at the eUnited Nations and upset the Americans no end.
6The only problem was that the Americans really didn’t like it when the Russkies moved a bunch of gigantic missiles into Cuba,
7Ninety miles from Florida,
8And decided,
9With typical American foresight,
10fThat they’d rather blow up the whole world than have Russkie missiles in Cuba.
11This was terribly embarrassing to Khrushchev,
12Who soon retired,
13gTo a suburb of Siberia,
14So that a new Russkie czar could keep things moving forward,
15hBy building lots of gigantic new missiles and factories and cities and concrete things,
16And so forth,
17And so on,
18iNot to mention Siberia.
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