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Anastas Mikoyan Quotes

1895–1978 Armenia

Anastas Hovhannesi Mikoyan (25 November 1895 {O.S. 13 November} – 21 October 1978) was an Armenian Old Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the Stalin and Khrushchev years. During Stalin's reign, he was awarded with several high governmental posts including Minister of Trade.

Armenia

Also known as: Mikoyan, Anastas

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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.

Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote (1959)

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

Soviet Foreign Policy Toward Western Europe (1978)

It is better to confess to one's errors than to persist in them.

Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote (1959)

If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.

Stalin's methods did not help.

One Man Alone: Richard Nixon (1969)

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.

While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.

Like Lenin Comrade Stalin is a leader of a higher type. He is a mountain eagle, without fear in the fight, who boldly leads the bolshevik party on unexplored roads toward the total victory of Communism.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anastas Mikoyan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.