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Nikita Khrushchev's quote


When Richard Nixon told Khrushchev all about the great inventions America had back in the 50's, Khrushchev replied, "Don't you Americans have a machine that puts food in people's mouths and pushes it down?" Everyone thinks that he was making a comment about the USA caring more about consumer gadgets than conquering poverty, but it sounds like he was making a reference to the cruel "feeding machine" in Modern Times.

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