Anastas Mikoyan: Quotes about homeland

Anastas Mikoyan was Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman. Explore interesting quotes on country.
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“One former member of [the antiparty] group [Molotov] became an ambassador. True, the country [Outer Mongolia] may not be large, but it is an ambassadorship. I do not want to mention names, but you have some former Secretaries of State. I do not know where they are today, but they are not ambassadors. A second member of the group [Kaganovich] is now head of the state asbestos trust. Is that punishment, to head up a big monopoly? … It is better to confess to one's errors than to persist in them.”

Anastas Mikoyan

Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote (1959)

“We cannot, after all, ignore the fact that the cold war is being fostered from the U. S. No one will deny that American bases around our country are not being reduced; in fact they are being strengthened. All of this is bound to cause suspicion, and it is bound to cause the Soviet leaders to be cautious and vigilant.”

Anastas Mikoyan

Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote (1959)

“There are no U. S. flyers in our country. The bodies were handed over to the Americans. We have no other bodies of flyers or living flyers in the Soviet Union. If we had, why should we try to hide them?”

Anastas Mikoyan

Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote (1959)