Hi TexasOilMan, yes you are correct. There is also another user of the expression, and it will not come up in any English language google search. The country leader I was referring to was Nikita Khrushchev (one must wonder if Nikita ever read the bible), who in 1956 faced an uprising of the population in Hungary. As Nikita evaluated the situation, initially he figured that if they ignored the problem, it would go away. In a meeting of the Central Committee he said "if they are not against us, they are with us", referring to people that stood on the sidelines. In the end the problem did not go away, it got bigger, and they crushed the dissenters with brute force. A sorry chapter for Europe, which to a very large extent explains the attitudes of many eastern europeans, and their almost phobic behaviour towards the old Soviet rulers, and the anxiety it creates on Hungarians today when a Russian company gets too close to home (like for example Sugurt to MOL).

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