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Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat. He is best known as a state prosecutor of Joseph Stalin's Moscow Trials and in the Nuremberg trials. He was the Soviet Foreign Minister from 1949 to 1953, after having served as Deputy Foreign Minister under Vyacheslav Molotov since 1940. He also headed the Institute of State and Law in the Academy of Sciences of the Sovie…

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politics · Soviet politician, jurist, and diplomat (1883–1954) · jurist · diplomat · politician · university teacher · lawyer · also Andrey Vyshinsky, Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky, Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky, Vyshinsky

Born 28 November 1883 · Died 22 November 1954 · Q155860

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You have lost your sense of party and class. We don
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1953).
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Aug 24, 2026Documented record76% confidence

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“You have lost your sense of party and class. We don”

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1954· 1 entry

Nov 22, 1954Documented record86% confidence

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Died 1954-11-22.

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1953· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1953Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Order of Lenin (1953).

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Jan 1, 1953Documented record84% confidence

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Career landmark: Permanent Representative of the USSR to the United Nations and to the UN Security Council (1953–1954).

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1953Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Was among the chief figures accused by the U

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1949· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1949Documented record84% confidence

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Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs of USSR (1949–1953).

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1947· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1947Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Order of Lenin (1947).

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Jun 15, 1947Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1947).

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1945· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1945Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Order of Lenin (1945).

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Jan 1, 1945Documented record75% confidence

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“For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”

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1943· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1943Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Order of Lenin (1943).

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1943Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Remained in the Soviet Union to "keep shop" while most of the leadership was abroad

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1939· 2 entries

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Vyshinsky introduced a motion to the Supreme Soviet to bring Western Ukraine into the USSR

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Jan 1, 1939Documented record84% confidence

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Career landmark: Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1939–1944).

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1938· 1 entry

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To use a similar approach in show trials conducted by Nazi Germany

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1937· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1937Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Order of Lenin (1937).

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1936· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1936Documented record76% confidence

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“s power to summarily arrest or exile people or sentence them to prison. Vyshinsky often punctuated speeches with phrases like”

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1935· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1935Documented record84% confidence

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Career landmark: Procurator General of the Soviet Union (1935–1939).

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1933· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1933Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1933).

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1928· 1 entry

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Vyshinsky presided over the Shakhty Trial against 53 alleged counter-revolutionary "wreckers"

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1925· 1 entry

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Was elected rector of Moscow University, which he began to clear of "unsuitable" students and professors

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1921· 1 entry

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Vyshinsky joins the winners and acts as the royal prosecutor in a show trial in which Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky and Bukharin are sentenced to death as "Subversives, Traitors, Blasphemers and Regicides"

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1920· 1 entry

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After the defeat of the Whites under Denikin, and the end of the Russian Civil War, he joined the Bolsheviks

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1917· 2 entries

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Vyshinsky was appointed police commissioner of the Yakimanka District

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1917Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Became reacquainted with Stalin, who had become an important Bolshevik leader

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1908· 1 entry

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And a few days later was sent to Bayil prison in Baku to serve his sentence

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1903· 1 entry

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And took an active part in the 1905 Russian Revolution

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1901· 1 entry

1901Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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But was expelled in 1902 for participating in revolutionary activities

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1883· 1 entry

Nov 28, 1883Documented record86% confidence

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Born 1883-11-28.

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