1960, Oct 12 Nikita Khrushchev's Shoe-Banging Incident.
(During the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 1960. Khrushchev supposedly pounded his shoe on his delegate-desk in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong.)
"And when Mr. Khrushchev brandishes his shoe at the United Nations and hammers the table with it, no colonized individual, no representative of the underdeveloped countries laughs. For what Mr. Khrushchev is showing the colonized countries who are watching, is that he, the missile-wielding muzhik is treating these wretched capitalists the way they deserve."
- Frantz Fanon 1961, revolutionary philosopher
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