Word: armenians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trade agreement will amount to only 5% of West Germany's foreign trade. Mikoyan himself recalled that Germany once sent 40% of its exports to Russia, and some of his hearers were reminded that the shrewd little Armenian had been around before: it was he who negotiated a trade agreement with Nazi Germany shortly before the cynical Molotov-Ribbentrop 1939 treaty that was the prelude to World...
...Mikoyan of 1957 can still turn on joviality like tap water, laugh off Khrushchev's blunted barbs, and knock back bottoms-up toasts in the Armenian cognac he calls "best on earth." He remains the Kremlin's jauntiest dresser and spriest waltzer. His wife Anush (whom he found in Rostov's Armenian colony just after the revolution) calls him babnik, which means flatterer. She once declared that he was one of only two hand-kissing, courtly gentlemen in Moscow (the other: Lavrenty Beria). They have four sons (another was killed in World...
...carry them out." Nonetheless, Soviet specialists in Washington believe that such features of Khrushchev's foreign policy as the subtle method of taking the West by flank movement, by intrigue and envelopment of neutrals rather than by head-on attack, bear the stamp of the agile Armenian. These days Mikoyan likes to tell visitors from the East, as Stalin did before him, "I am an Asian too." No Soviet leader has been a more frequent visitor to Peking. Amid all the jolts and lurches that now characterize Russian foreign policy, the influence of Mikoyan appears to be at least...
Economic Adventurism. Top Polish Planner Seweryn Bialer, who, before he defected to the West last year, had access to minutes of Kremlin meetings, makes the significant point that for all of Mikoyan's helpful contributions to Khrushchev's foreign policy, the astute Armenian has taken care not to associate himself too conspicuously with Khrushchev's domestic policy. This policy, which Bialer characterizes as "sheer economic adventurism," proclaims the highest priority simultaneously for heavy industry, for consumer goods and for agriculture, and bases its hopes of fulfillment not on basic expansion of plant but on increased efficiency...
...When French Premier Guy Mollet's party visited Moscow last year, Mikoyan pressed them to visit his home republic of Armenia. Khrushchev joined in, saying that the Armenian climate was good, even though the food and wine were terrible. In due course, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flew to Yerevan, capital of the Armenian Soviet Republic, on Turkey's eastern border. At his hotel Pineau was confronted by hundreds of French-speaking Armenians who had been lured back from France after World War II by Soviet blandishments to "come home and help build a new Armenian homeland." They greeted...