Vishinsky

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In the years just after the founding of the United Nations in 1945, when speeches from the lectern of the General Assembly and the Security Council were widely broadcast beyond the earphones of the diplomats on the floor, Mr. Sherry became known as the English-speaking voice of Andrei Y. Vishinsky, the Soviet delegate.

From New York Times

A 1962 article about Mr. Sherry in The New Yorker touched on his time translating Mr. Vishinsky in the late 1940s: “Although Sherry spoke with an almost aggressively American accent, the audience so easily identified the voice with the Russian fulminations that the secretary general himself” — Trygve Lie at the time — “started receiving letters that urged him to fire the Communist twin.”

From New York Times

“Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky spoke yesterday in tones that were in quick succession impassioned, angry, sarcastic, sardonic, pleading and furious,” The New York Times reported on Sept.

From New York Times

Walt Rostow, who was Lyndon Johnson's National Security Adviser, recalls how the late Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky "told a group of Americans that we deceived them on Korea."

From Time Magazine Archive

A Russian merchant's son who took his doctorate in economics at Heidelberg, Dallin was imprisoned under the czarist regime for revolutionary activity and under the Bolsheviks for his Social Democratic politics, after 18 years of exile in Germany and Poland finally reached the U.S., where he wrote ten books ranging from a definitive study of Soviet espionage to an analysis of forced labor in Russia so searing it provoked the late Andrei Vishinsky to proclaim in the U.N. that Dallin and Co-Author Boris Nicolaevsky were "complete idiots or gangsters."

From Time Magazine Archive