So this quote originates from Nixon attributing a quote to Lenin that's most likely based on a Hollywood war movie scene about landmines? Is this accurate?
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Maybe, i'm assuming its from mcu, because its funny
They probably did for all I know, but likely used Nixon as the origin of the quote without knowing. Or maybe they were just referencing the OG war movie.
this just keeps getting funnier the deeper I go, the movie that Nixon got it from is a 'war comedy' lmao:
The idea is that a bayonet stuck in the soil can detect a land mine without setting it off; the mines are designed to detonate under heavier pressure. The 1970 cult-classic war comedy Kelly’s Heroes features a scene in which Clint Eastwood, Don Rickles, and the rest of their platoon undertake just such a task after one of their buddies steps on a mine and is killed. (When Rickles’s character, Crapgame, encounters a buried explosive and is asked what kind it is, he retorts: “The kind that blow up! How the hell do I know what kind it is?”)
Damn us politicians really running on movie vibes for the last 50 years
propaganda ouroboros quietly continues eating itself
Only took them forty-five years, but they're finally going to get the war with Iran they've been so desperate to start.
I am joining the war on Iran on the side of Iran
>made to seem foreign and proverbial
>supposedly translated from Russian
>naturally rhymes when localized
but naturally, when they finally do it, it has to be spongebob lenin. truly the americans cannot stand flesh and blood heroes.