It was almost impossible, I was sure, for them to know where they were going – even the best NVG systems aren’t that good – and then I realised that they didn’t care. “Single shots only try not to miss.” I paused, watching as the enemy came closer, a swarm of hest signatures that were blending into one great mass. “Section One and Two, open fire on my command,” I ordered.
I keyed my radio, biting down the grin that was trying to plaster itself across my features. Ironically, the heat from the torches was confusing the goggles, although we were able to tune that out and react. It was easy to see, through the goggles, that there was a certain method in their madness after all the Warriors who were carrying burning torches – and were thus visible even in the darkness – were not leading a platoon of assaulting Warriors, but were running on their own.
They were much warmer than the surrounding air and their vehicles were warming still, marking easy targets for our sharpshooters. In the night-vision goggles, they showed up clearly against the cooling landscape. In the night time, the Warriors were almost invisible. No form of this quotation has been verified in the speeches or writings of Khrushchev.I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. 27 (1979).Īn Associated Press news release, dated August 4, 1979, summarized these meetings: In a month of hearings on the SALT II treaty, many senators have quoted and requoted the late Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who once said that after a nuclear exchange, the living would envy the dead. The quotation has been widely used in the press since then, including The Washington Post, March 20, 1981, p. Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, also attributed this same quotation to Khrushchev in hearings held July 11, 1979, and repeated the quotation in later hearings held July 16, 1979. The Salt II Treaty, hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, 96th Congress, 1st session, part 1, p. This issue of Harpers was stamped in the Library of Congress on July 12, 1979. 36, attributes the survivors would envy the dead to Khrushchev. KHRUSHCHEV, speaking of nuclear war.Įd Zuckerman, Hiding from the Bomb≺gain, Harpers, August 1979, p. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894≡971)Īttributed to NIKITA S. Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. Reference > Quotations > Respectfully Quoted Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894-1971).
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