Word: mikoyan
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...fear of being led away at dawn. Often, Montefiore records, the dinner "sank to the level of a Neanderthal stag night." Stalin would get so drunk, Nikita Khrushchev remembered, that "he'd throw a tomato at you." Lavrenti Beria liked to slip tomatoes into the old Bolshevik Anastas Mikoyan's suit pockets and push Mikoyan against a wall so that they exploded...
...Russian republic and the Ukraine, with heavy concentrations in Moscow, Leningrad and the Urals. Production is checked by Gosplan, the central economic planning agency, which operates on directives and specifications from the design bureaus of defense-related ministries. The bureaus, often named for chief designers like Sukhoi, Tupolev, Ilyushin, Mikoyan and Gurevich, are the Soviet equivalent of Boeing and Lockheed...
...when we were debating whether or not to use military force against the counterrevolution in Hungary, I had a sharp disagreement with another comrade, Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, which caused me genuine sadness. Anastas Ivanovich and I were very close...
Neither he nor Mikhail Suslov, the senior party ideologist, was at the meeting ((at which the Soviet leaders decided to crush the Hungarian revolution with tanks)). They were in Hungary, trying to deal with the situation that was developing there. Mikoyan flew home only after we'd made our decision. His apartment and mine were on the same floor. When I told him about our decision, he objected strenuously that armed intervention was not right and that it would undermine the reputation of our government and party...
...time we didn't know that my father had already decided to retire without putting up a fight. Late at night he called Mikoyan and said that if everyone wanted to relieve him of his posts, he would not object. Our telephone was bugged and his words became known immediately to his opponents, but we knew nothing. The whole morning of the 14th of October passed in exhausting expectation. At last there was a phone call from the Kremlin to say that he was on his way home...