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
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Soviet and Russian politician who was the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the C
Andrei Gromyko
…after Brezhnev's death in 1982, Gromyko's rigid 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…
Gorbachev in 1987
Gorbachev and his Ukrainian maternal grandparents, late 1930s
Gorbachev on a visit to East Germany in 1966
Gorbachev (right) with his mentor Yuri Andropov in 1973