Andrei Gromyko
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Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko was a Soviet politician and diplomat during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Gromyko was respon
Gromyko in 1972
Gromyko standing between Harry Truman and James Byrnes at the Potsdam Conference in July 1945
Gromyko in 1952
Gromyko and John F. Kennedy in October 1961
Konstantin Chernenko
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Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was a Soviet politician who served as the de jure leader of the Soviet Union from February 1984 until his death in March 1985.
Andrei Gromyko
…conservatism and distrust of the West continued to underlie the Soviet Union's foreign policy until Mikhail Gorbachev's rise to power in 1985. Upon Konstantin Chernenko's selection as General Secretary on 13 February 1984, Andrei Gromyko formed an unofficial triumvirate along with Ustinov and Chernenko that governed…
Chernenko in 1984
Chernenko as a Soviet frontier guard in 1930
Chernenko in 1962
Chernenko (left) posing for a photo with his longtime patron, Leonid Brezhnev, and Fidel Castro in 1981.