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ANDREY YANUARYEVICH VYSHINSKY

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ANDREY YANUARYEVICH VYSHINSKY
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>ANDREY YANUARYEVICH VYSHINSKY </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Infamous Stalin Henchman</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR>(1883-1954). Soviet statesman, diplomat and lawyer; aggressive and vengeful chief prosecutor during the Great Purge trials in Moscow in the 1930s; headed Soviet delegation during Nuremberg trials. Vyshinsky achieved prominence during the Metro-Vickers trial in 1933, in which several British engineers were charged with trying to wreck Soviet hydroelectric constructions. <b>War-date</b> DS as Vice People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs in Russian, 1½pp, 4to, Moscow, May 24, 1941. Less than a month before the German invasion, Vyshinsky writes to the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Trade discussing the transportation of grain to Nazi Germany via Soviet railroad, the German embassy offering the “<i>best</i>” route through Romania. He discusses housing contacts and a system of signals to be built. Boldly signed at conclusion. Several endorsements penciled on recto. Important document reflecting blindness of the Bolsheviks as Hitler plots to betray the non-aggression pact signed in 1939.</span></p>