As to what Khrushchev intended at the UN, at about the time Melbourne hosted the Olympics, turned quite bloody in the water polo pool. Linguists discuss to this day what he meant in regard to the west: ‘Our Soviet system will outlive you’ or ‘our Soviet system will bury you’. Nikita’s lying abroad on behalf of his country turned ‘War and Peace!’ into ‘War or Peace?’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you Whatever that shoe-banging, atheistic totalitarian meant the consequences were devastating, particularly for Hungary.

On danger: Although English is currently used as the international language of aeronautical and marine navigation and communication, numerous fatal accidents testify to its dialectal variation and the extreme difficulty in learning and retaining it. For example, we Aussies ain’t renowned for our pronunciation of English, thus creating some minor problems for American and British visitors. Picture a Pakistani pilot being guided by a Scottish air traffic controller to land his stricken aircraft. Yet, those four nationalities mentioned have used English as an official language – for centuries.

I’m reminded of a tragic incident several decades ago in Spain where a nonsensical use of a prefix – ‘inflammable’ – and resistance on the part of lexicographers resulted in death by burning of innocent passers by. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/flammable-or-inflammable