We Last

Russian official: “Why are you applying to leave the Soviet Union?”

Emigrant: “Everyone at work keeps telling me that the Soviet Union is in such a state of political and economic crisis that it’s going to collapse.”

Russian official: “Nonsense.  The Soviet Union is very stable.  It can go on just as it is for thousands of years.”

Emigrant: “That’s my other reason."

We, on the other hand, have been around since Abraham, and will remain that way.  Trust in the One.