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Andrei Gromyko was a long-serving Soviet diplomat who played a central role in Cold War foreign policy for the Soviet Union. His career spanned decades and made him one of the most influential figures shaping Soviet-Western relations during this period of global tension.
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- 1908-07-05
- Died
- 1989-07-02
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- By Andrei Gromyko - Memoirs (1990-02-16) [Hardcover]
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- Capital Promotes Imperialist Expansion
- The Overseas Expansion of Capital
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Soviet diplomat and statesman, in 1957-1985 - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, in 1985-1988 - Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Doctor of Economics (1956). In 1944, the USSR Ambassador to the United States, Gromyko, led the Soviet delegation at the International Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, USA, on the creation of the United Nations. Participated in…
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- The Not So Distant Future — Dominic2019
- Pangea2017
- Crimean Conference — Self1945
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Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (18 July [O.S. 5 July] 1909 – 2 July 1989) was a Soviet politician and diplomat during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957–1985) and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985–1988). Gromyko was responsible for many top decisions on Soviet foreign policy until he retired in 1988. In the 1940s, Western pundits called him Mr. Nyet ("Mr. No"), or Grim Grom, because of his frequent use of the Soviet veto in the United Nations Security Council.
Gromyko's political career started in 1939 in the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (renamed Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1946). He became the Soviet ambassador to the United States in 1943, leaving that position in 1946 to become the Soviet Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. Upon his return to Moscow he became a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and later First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and eventually Foreign Minister. He went on to become the Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1952.
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