Andrey Vyshinsky
Politician
1883 – 1954
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Who was Andrey Vyshinsky?
Andrey Yanuarevich Vyshinsky was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat.
He is known as a state prosecutor of Joseph Stalin's Moscow trials and in the Nuremberg trials. He was the Soviet Foreign Minister from 1949 to 1953, after having served as Deputy Foreign Minister under Vyacheslav Molotov since 1940. He also headed the Institute of State and Law in the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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- Born
- Dec 10, 1883
Odessa - Also known as
- Andrey Januarevich Vyshinsky
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Profession
- Education
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Died
- Nov 22, 1954
New York City - Resting place
- Kremlin Wall Necropolis
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on July 23, 2013
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