Andrei A. Gromyko Quotes
Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.
Taubman, William. Gorbachev: His Life and Times. W. W. Norton & Company, 2017, p. 214.
It was Mao whose brilliant leadership defeated Chiang and forced him give up China and flee to Taiwan. It was not Mao’s military ability, but his understanding of the Chinese people and how to lead and motivate them that enabled him to be victorious. Chiang, the better general and military tactician, was a strategic failure and his only experience with the average Chinese person was to rule, intimidate and command him.
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko was a Soviet Belarusian communist 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.