Vishinsky

American

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

Or Vyshinsky

noun

Andrei Yanuarievich 1883–1954, Soviet statesman.

Vishinsky British

/ viˈʃinskij /

noun

a variant spelling of (Andrei Yanuaryevich) Vyshinsky

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Vishinsky: Worse than deception; more than perfidy�would the word be treason?

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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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In the same week Pravda published an old Lenin memorandum addressed to ex-Premier Alexei Rykov. a leading defendant in the trials, around whose "individual confession" Vishinsky had built a web of guilt.

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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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As the translator rattled off Marshall's words, Molotov went into a huddle with Andrei Vishinsky, scurried through documents, snapped open briefcases.

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