Kuzma's mother

Character in a Russian idiom describing punishment

Kuzma's mother, or Kuzka's mother, is part of the Russian proverb "to show Kuzka's mother ", an expression of an unspecified threat or punishment, such as "to teach someone a lesson", "to punish someone in a brutal way", and "to give someone what for". 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".

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