Word: mikoyan
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...lift the eating standards of the 20th Century Soviet people from stinking fish to somewhere near the standards of American sharecroppers, has been the achievement of Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan. In the '305 he visited the U.S., brought back to Russia the Eskimo...
Whether Molotov and Mikoyan have been moved nearer the throne or down to the basement, world Communism's next big goal is to digest its enormous gains of the last four years. The "incalculable machine" cannot stop where it is. The gears are clanking for new operations...
Needed: Good Beer. Mikoyan is the U.S.S.R.'s prime businessman, with a finger in all the pies. Usually brushed off in the U.S. as "foreign trade chief," he was also, until last week, supervisor of all Soviet domestic commerce, director of consumer-goods production, director of the production of food, supervisor of the ministries of ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy. And, in addition, he has been one of the few people with whom Stalin liked to pass his hours of relaxation...
...trim-looking little Armenian, Mikoyan is an exception to the run of humorless Bolsheviks. He is happy-go-lucky, and he can tell a story. He likes to hum a tune, dance, drink. (He promised the Soviet people he would produce a good beer...
...Stalin's first assignments from Lenin was to weld together the bickering nationalities of the Caucasus, and it was then that Mikoyan became his henchman. In this stubborn problem, Mikoyan demonstrated that he could be politic, patient, persuasive and in a pinch-like all Bolsheviks-utterly merciless...