Andrei Gromyko

Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (O.S. 5 July 1909 – 2 July 1989) 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).

Andrei Gromyko in 1967

Quotes

• Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.
  • New York Herald Tribune, 30 June 1953

• [The world may end up] under a Sword of Damocles … on a tightrope over the abyss.
  • Criticising the US Strategic Defense Initiative
  • Time, 11 Mar 1985