Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...republic's appeasing Gustav Stresemann, with 580 votes, just nosed out Adolf Hitler, who got 513. The Germans apparently did not think much of the U.S.'s greats. Washington and Lincoln barely won honorable mention, and the late President Roosevelt got only 109 votes-63 less than Stalin, and just enough to tie him for ninth place with France's 17th Century Cardinal Richelieu...
...bottom of the list, in which Der Spiegel's readers went farther afield, was equally interesting. Stalin placed fifth with 172 votes, just ahead of Talleyrand and Metternich. Others who made the all-star list: Mohandas K. Gandhi (with 103 votes), Frederick the Great (55), Disraeli (43), Lenin and Caesar (33), Francisco Franco (24), Marx (11), and Truman (7). Clement Attlee got one vote-three less than Jesus Christ...