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In 1961, Reagan - who was an actor and TV host at the time - attributed a version of the quote to Khrushchev in a speech, without providing evidence of its origin: We’ll so weaken your economy until you’ll fall like an overripe fruit into our hands."Īccording to the book, the quote emerged and began circulating in the 1960s.

No, you won’t accept Communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have Communism. In the Nikita Khrushchev section of a book titled "They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions," a version of this quote is listed: She did not respond to our request for comment. PolitiFact attempted to reach out to Haley on social media and through the organization she founded, Stand For America, to see if she had evidence to back up her claim. There is no evidence Khrushchev, who led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, ever said this about Americans, though this quote and similar ones have been attributed to Khrushchev by people including President Ronald Reagan and staunch anti-communist Ezra Taft Benson, former secretary of agriculture. ( Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. No, you won't accept communism outright but, we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism." "Your children's children will live under communism. 5 Facebook post, before continuing on to provide the supposed Khrushchev quote: "Khrushchev 60 years ago…" she wrote in the Oct. attributed a nefarious-sounding quote about socialism to Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev. In a recent social media post, Nikki Haley - former governor of South Carolina and U.S.
