Word: mikoyan
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...Snapped Mikoyan: "What's the matter, Zhukov, can't you think up your own toast...
Into the Darkness. "Justice," in its peculiar Soviet connotation, had a special meaning for Mikoyan that day. An Armenian who served Stalin in the transCaucasus area during Stalin's early struggle for power. Mikoyan was made commissar for trade in 1926, not only survived the purges, but is credited with having brought Lavrenty Beria to Stalin's attention...
...record now shows that at the time of the Spiridonovka party, another of his protégés, Armenian party Secretary Grigori A. Arutinov, political boss of Armenia since 1937, was being ousted. Some time later Mikoyan's trusted deputy in the Ministry of Foreign Trade, English-speaking Alexei D. Krutikov, was also expelled for "placing personal friendships above party and state interests," and the ministry was criticized for having covered up for Krutikov...
...Mikoyan had more contacts with foreign civilians than any other Soviet leader (he visited the U.S. in 1936, returned with enthusiasm for frozen foods. Coca-Cola and Eskimo Pies), and was popular with British businessmen, who refer to him as "Mikky." He junketed with Khrushchev and Bulganin to Red China last September, but Aneurin Bevan, who met him in Moscow, noted that his influence seemed to be waning. His ministry was criticized for boosting the sales of vodka while the party was carrying on an anti-alcohol campaign. Recently his trade representative in Georgia was tried for "speculation and cheating...
There was sound reason for the attack on Mikoyan: his ministry had been obliged to carry the burden of Malenkov's promised "sharp upsurge" in consumer goods. With the recent hardening of Soviet foreign policy towards the West as a result of the approaching rearmament of Germany, the consumer-goods policy has fallen into disfavor...