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soldelmisol t1_ixj2pq3 wrote

I can’t help but think he also might have been influenced by Krushov’s (Premier of the USSR then) statement a couple years earlier that in the case of a nuclear war that “…the living will envy the dead.” It was a huge part of the zeitgeist back then as I remember, following the Bay of Pigs standoff.

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ZwischenzugZugzwang t1_ixjsigv wrote

Khrushchev

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soldelmisol t1_ixk0bnr wrote

Of course, apologies.

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ZwischenzugZugzwang t1_ixk4mot wrote

Don't sweat it. Seems like half my college career was writing papers on Khrushchev and listening to Grateful Dead on acid.

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soldelmisol t1_ixkcqty wrote

Ah. I was more Jefferson Airplane and Ravi Shankar, but in a similar space.

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