Andrei Gromyko

Andrei Gromyko in 1967

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).

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