Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Anastas Mikoyan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Armenian statesman Anastas Mikoyan.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Anastas Mikoyan

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.

While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.
We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.
If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave. — © Anastas Mikoyan
If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.
We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers - that is not freedom of the press.
The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type. Nevertheless, we must emphasize this old truth, because for about 20 years we have had practically no collective leadership; there flourished the cult of the individual which was condemned first by Marx and then by Lenin. And this, of course, could not but reflect negatively on the position of the party and its work.
Like Lenin Comrade Stalin is a leader of a higher type. He is a mountain eagle, without fear in the fight, who boldly leads the bolshevik party on unexplored roads toward the total victory of Communism.
All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.
Stalin's methods did not help.
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