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Vyshinsky

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Vyshinsky, Vishinsky (Russian) [viˈʃinskij]
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(Biographies / Vyshinsky, Andrei Yanuaryevich (1883-1954) M, Russian, LAW: jurist, POLITICS: statesman, POLITICS: diplomat) Andrei Yanuaryevich (anˈdrjej jənuˈarjɪvitʃ). 1883-1954, Soviet jurist, statesman, and diplomat; foreign minister (1949-53). He was public prosecutor (1935-38) at the trials held to purge Stalin's rivals and was the Soviet representative at the United Nations (1945-49; 1953-54)


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17) In 1935, he appointed Andrei Vyshinsky to what had then become the Soviet Union's highest legal post, Procurator General of the USSR.
The political system imposed by the Americans was inspired by the divisive sectarian model that has made Lebanon what it is, and the judiciary is at the mercy of the vested political forces that turned Saddam's trial into a mockery worthy of Vyshinsky and his execution into a mob lynching.
The play became a show trial with the director taking over the role of Vyshinsky, dedicated to the proposition that men are a rotten lot and should be ashamed of themselves.
 
 
 
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