Threatening the USA

Last week I looked at Malenkov’s ridiculously long sentences and somewhat meaningless statistics. This time, I want to look at his use of threats! 

Despite starting with boring statistics, Malenkov’s speech picked up when he started talking about international affairs. He placed a great emphasis on characterising the USSR as friendly but powerful if it needs to be.

On the one hand he said…

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