Who succeeded Molotov as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1949?
Andrei Vyshinsky
Nikita Khrushchev
Yuri Andropov
Mikhail Gorbachev
Answer
Andrei Vyshinsky was a Soviet diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1953. He was a close ally of Joseph Stalin and played a major role in the Soviet Union's foreign policy during the Cold War. Vyshinsky was a hard-line communist who was known for his aggressive and uncompromising negotiating style.
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