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Anastas Mikoyan Quotes

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.

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.

Anastas Mikoyan
Thinking, People, Newspapers
"Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote". content.time.com. January 26, 1959.

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.

Anastas Mikoyan
Party, Fighting, Eagles
Statement of 13 March 1939, as quoted in "Facts on Communism" by the United States Congress, (p. 157), 1960.

Stalin's methods did not help.

Anastas Mikoyan
Helping, Method
"One Man Alone: Richard Nixon" by Ralph de Toledano, (p. 243), 1969.

We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.

Anastas Mikoyan
War, Forget
"Soviet Foreign Policy Toward Western Europe" by George Ginsburgs and Alvin Z. Rubinstein, (p. 105), 1978.

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.

Anastas Mikoyan
Unions, Culture, Development
"The Soviet Government and the Jews 1948-1967: A Documented Study" by Benjamin Pinkus, (p. 66), 1984.

While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.

Anastas Mikoyan
Iron, Discipline, Majority
"The Soviet Colossus : History and Aftermath" by Michael Kort, (p. 172), 2001.

If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.

Anastas Mikoyan
Ambassadors, Graves, Turns
"MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair" by Michael R. Beschloss, (p. 42), 1986.

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.

Anastas Mikoyan
Party, Years, Firsts
"The World Almanac and Book of Facts" edited by Luman H. Long, (p. 159), 1969.

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