According to Ezra Taft Benson among others, Khrushchev said:
"Your children's children will live under communism, You Americans are so gullible. 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. We will not have to fight you; We will so weaken your economy, until you will fall like overripe fruit into our hands." A strategy he repeated over & over again during the 50's and 60's...