Word: mikoyan
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...stamp parliament, the Supreme Soviet, met last week in the great assembly hall of the Kremlin. At Stalin's right hand as he entered the hall was V. M. Molotov, who a week before had been "released" as Minister of Foreign Affairs. With Stalin, too, was A. I. Mikoyan who had been released as Minister of Foreign Trade. The three together were cheered. Also present, in a government box off to the side, was the new Foreign Minister, Andrei Vishinsky...
...arrangements buttressed the theory that Molotov and Mikoyan had not been demoted...
...setup experienced further quakes last weekend when the Supreme Soviet announced that the youngest member of the Politburo, Nikolai Voznesensky, 45, had been released as chairman of the State Planning Commission (head of the U.S.S.R.'s industrial production). This had occurred on the same day that Molotov and Mikoyan were released of their ministries. But there was a difference: Molotov and Mikoyan remained as Deputy Prime Ministers; Voznesensky...
...Slaughter. Mikoyan was born in 1895, and is who's-who'd in the approved Soviet manner as the son of a worker. Like Stalin he once studied for the priesthood. He graduated in 1915 from the Armenian Religious Seminary (Nestorian Catholic) at Tiflis, switched the same year to the Bolshevik Party...
...Mikoyan studied U.S. meatpacking processes in Chicago. He returned home to set up the huge Mikoyan packinghouse in Moscow and to teach the Russians how to eat cornflakes, drink canned fruit juices. He said then: "We do not need to copy Americans, but we can learn much from their advertising methods...