Kuzma's mother

Kuzma's mother or Kuzka's mother (Russian: Кузькина мать) (Kuzka being a diminutive form of Kuzma, a Russian form of the name "Cosmas") is a part of the Russian idiomatic expression "to show Kuzka's mother to someone" (Russian: Показать кузькину мать (кому-либо)), an expression of an unspecified threat or punishment, such as "to teach someone a lesson" or "to punish someone in a brutal way". It entered the history of the foreign relations of the Soviet Union as part of the image of Nikita Khrushchev, along with the shoe-banging incident and the phrase We will bury you.

Kuzma's mother

Kuzma's mother or Kuzka's mother (Russian: Кузькина мать) (Kuzka being a diminutive form of Kuzma, a Russian form of the name "Cosmas") is a part of the Russian idiomatic expression "to show Kuzka's mother to someone" (Russian: Показать кузькину мать (кому-либо)), an expression of an unspecified threat or punishment, such as "to teach someone a lesson" or "to punish someone in a brutal way". It entered the history of the foreign relations of the Soviet Union as part of the image of Nikita Khrushchev, along with the shoe-banging incident and the phrase We will bury you.