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Anastas Mikoyan

Soviet revolutionary and statesman (1895-1978) · Russia · Activists · Died at 82

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He rode every wave of Soviet power without drowning. From Lenin's revolution to Brezhnev's stagnation, Anastas Mikoyan survived fifty-three years inside the machinery that killed most of his peers - inspiring the saying "from Ilyich to Ilyich without heart attack and paralysis."

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A life in dates

1978Died21 October 1978“We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.”In their wordsAs quoted in "Soviet Foreign Policy Toward Western Europe" (1978) by George Ginsburgs and Alvin Z. Rubinstein, p. 105

1975Order of LeninAward1970Order of the October RevolutionAward1969“Stalin's methods did not help.”In their wordsAs quoted in "One Man Alone: Richard Nixon" (1969) by Ralph de Toledano, p. 243

“The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type.”In their wordsAs quoted in "The World Almanac and Book of Facts" (1969), p. 159

1965Order of LeninAward1959“All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.”In their wordsJanuary 1959Statement of January 1959, as quoted in "The Soviet Government and the Jews 1948-1967" (1984), p. 66

“We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers - that is not freedom of the press.”In their words26 January 1959Time magazine, 26 January 1959

1955Order of LeninAward1945Order of LeninAward1943"Hammer and Sickle" gold medalAwardHero of Socialist LabourAwardOrder of LeninAward1939“Like Lenin Comrade Stalin is a leader of a higher type.”In their words13 March 1939Statement of 13 March 1939, as quoted in "Facts on Communism" (1960) by the United States Congress, p. 157

1936Order of LeninAward1928Order of the Red BannerAward1895Born13 November 1895

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In their own words 10

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  1. We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.

    1978, As quoted in "Soviet Foreign Policy Toward Western Europe" (1978) by George Ginsburgs and Alvin Z. Rubinstein, p. 105, Own words

  2. Stalin's methods did not help.

    1969, As quoted in "One Man Alone: Richard Nixon" (1969) by Ralph de Toledano, p. 243, Own words

  3. The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type.

    1969, As quoted in "The World Almanac and Book of Facts" (1969), p. 159, Own words

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Awards

Order of Lenin1975
Order of the October Revolution1970
Order of Lenin1965
Order of Lenin1955
Order of Lenin1945
Order of Lenin1943
"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal1943
Hero of Socialist Labour1943
Order of Lenin1936
Order of the Red Banner1928

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An ethnic Armenian, Mikoyan joined the Bolsheviks in 1915 and fought in the Baku Commune after the October Revolution. He ran the North Caucasus for the party through the 1920s, entered the Politburo in 1935, and served as foreign trade minister twice while navigating Stalin's inner circle. By 1949 he was losing ground - stripped of his ministry, then publicly criticized by Stalin at the 19th Party Congress in 1952. Stalin's death the next year gave him an opening: he backed Khrushchev, helped crush a 1957 coup against him, and became the architect of de-Stalinization policy. Under Khrushchev he traveled to the United States and Cuba, wielding soft power on the international stage until 1964, when a coup toppled his patron. Mikoyan served one year as Chairman of the Presidium - nominal head of state - before Brezhnev forced him out in 1965.

Country
Russia
Category
Activists
Type
Activist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1895 to 1978 · aged 82

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