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MOLOTOV & MIKOYAN

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MOLOTOV & MIKOYAN
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>MOLOTOV & MIKOYAN </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>Two top ranking Stalinist foreign affairs statesmen. </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Vyacheslav Molotov</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'> (1890-1986), a revolutionary, early adopting the pseudonym of Molotov, meaning “Of the Hammer,” who negotiated the nonaggression pact with Germany in 1939. Also </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Anastas Mikoyan</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'> (1895-1978), an old-style Bolshevik who continued his supervision of foreign and domestic trade into the administration of Nikita Khrushchev. ANS in Russian, 1p, 12mo, n.p.,[ca. World War II]. In dark blue pencil, Mikoyan writes to “<i>C</i>[omrade] <i>Molotov. Please be acquainted with enclosed project</i> [not present]. <i>This is regarding 5 thousand tons of grain. It is possible to deliver this note from the name of People’s Commissariat of Foreign Trade, if you have problems with delivering it from People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs. A. Mikoyan. February 16th</i>.” Molotov replies vertically at right margin, “<i>It is not proper to do it from People’s Commissariat of Foreign Trade. V. Molotov. February 17th</i>.” Six punch holes at left margin of little affect; light soiling and toning; o/w VG.</span></p>