ANASTAS IVANOVICH MIKOYAN
Even leading Soviet officials were critical of the Stalin era and Stalin’s brutal, dictatorial methods.
Grigory Zinoviev was one of the original leaders of Revolutionary Russia and the early Communist Russian Government. The reason that this is a noteworthy quotation is that it shows that flip flops and hypocrisy seem to be present in all political systems, democratic as ours is as well as others.
The Germans killed 22 million Russians, most deliberate murders and not collateral damage, in WWII.
During the Cuban Missle Crises, Fidel Castro recommended that the Russians use the nuclear weaponin based in Cuba which would have assured that all Cubans and many Russians would die with the American retaliation.
Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan was an Armenian Communist revolutionary, Old Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the mandates of Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev. He was the only Soviet politician who managed to remain at the highest levels of power within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, as that power oscillated between the Central Committee and the Politburo, from the latter days of Lenin's rule, throughout the eras of Stalin and Khrushchev, until his peaceful retirement after the first months of Brezhnev's rule.
