Andrei A. Gromyko Quotes
You know how it is here. A bit like the Bermuda Triangle. From time to time, one of us disappears.
Referring to Kremlin political infighting:. a geographical Caribbean area where many planes and ships have been lost
Andrei A. Gromyko, 1909-1989, Russian Foreign Minister, Ambassador to the U.S. & the U.N., Remark, Quoted in The Los Angeles Times, July 4, 1989
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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.
