Vishinsky

American

[vi-shin-skee, vi-shin-skyee] / vɪˈʃɪn ski, vɪˈʃɪn skji /

Or Vyshinsky

noun

Andrei Yanuarievich 1883–1954, Soviet statesman.

Vishinsky British

/ viˈʃinskij /

noun

a variant spelling of (Andrei Yanuaryevich) Vyshinsky

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The Israeli minister in Moscow was summoned before Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky and handed an angry note.

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Also present, in a government box off to the side, was the new Foreign Minister, Andrei Vishinsky.

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Some responses: United Nations delegates bowed their heads in one minute's silence and Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky mourned "the most grievous loss ... for all human beings."

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Vishinsky, a sharp lawyer, produced a huge law study, ostensibly aimed at "strengthening Soviet legality," actually a justification of his method of basing cases on confessions alone.

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Walt Rostow, who was Lyndon Johnson's National Security Adviser, recalls how the late Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky "told a group of Americans that we deceived them on Korea."

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