Word: mikoyan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations and more power to those who so aptly demonstrated against the general manager of the Khrushchev Butcher Shop: Anastas Mikoyan...
...Mikoyan was not here to scout for his country. Indeed he was here for the opposite purpose. He came in the same way that Stevenson and Humphrey went to his country. He came in peace -for the purpose of promoting peaceful trade...
...amazing that the two current heroes of certain segments of the American public are Fidel Castro and Anastas Mikoyan. Castro made war on the Cuban people for years -burning their homes and crops and sabotaging their roads, bridges and communications. This hero justifies his wholesale executions by saying that Batista did the same thing. As to the other hero, Mikoyan, who ordered the mass murder of many Hungarians, he was wined and dined, and his opinions eagerly sought. Apparently, it all depends on who commits the atrocities...
...wares-and didn't steal a thing") that the reader was invited only to sympathize with the victim. The Chicago American vented its spleen in a front-page box: "Everyone is asking, 'Who sent for him?' " For the most part, the press attempted to balance its Mikoyan account with sound editorials and sharp cartoons. But even on the editorial pages, there were some solos of Mikoyan praise. "If all Soviet officials were always as amiable as Mikoyan," beamed the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "there would be no cold...
...craftily intelligent, ingenuously friendly. Soviet-type Rotarian, a capitalist at heart, who appealed to American vanity by praising American ways and American machinery. The Soviet press took careful and exultant note of the picture the U.S. press presented. "A Warm Wind from Moscow," paeaned the Moscow Literary Gazette,*quoting Mikoyan's "peace-loving utterances" and noting "the passionate desire of the Americans to be rid of the exasperating cold war." The U.S. press did not buy Salesman Mikoyan's wares, but in the name of objectivity it made them look pretty good...