Andrei Gromyko
Former First Deputy Premier of the Soviet UnionWikipedia
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Sep 23, 2026
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It was no longer necessary to be a romantic optimist in order to foresee a Zionist success.
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Gromyko had become a Zionist hero."
Erez SorefHOST
We can look historically to many who were influential in the reestablishing of the State of Israel in 1948.
Erez SorefHOST
But even now, more than seventy-five years later, our hope is anchored not in any politician or government leader.
Miles YuHOST
You look at the Soviet Union, where Stalin died, it took the Soviet Politburo over a year to decide who is going to be the successor.
Miles YuHOST
You know, Gromyko obviously is not really interested in this.
Miles YuHOST
He's a foreign affairs expert.
Miles YuHOST
Malenkov was designated as Stalin's successor, but he had no power, particularly inside the military.
Seán DefoeHOST
After the UN intervened forcefully, the Soviets had called for his resignation.
speaker_9NARRATOR
Andrei Gromyko, Russian ambassador to the United Nations, comes to the rostrum to renew his country's attack on the UN's Congo policies.
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U.S.
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Ambassador Adly Stevenson is attentive as the Soviet representative calls for complete withdrawal of UN troops from the Congo and attacks Dag Hammarskjöld, demanding his removal as Secretary General.
Thomas777GUEST
And the Soviets, and like I said before, in my opinion, the shadow executive of the Soviet Union during the Brezhnev era was Andropov.
Thomas777GUEST
Ustinov and Gromyko with a drop off being out front, as it were, the Soviets managed to flip India to the Soviet camp.
Thomas777GUEST
So Washington in turn was able to convert Pakistan into a client regime, which remains to this day.
Thomas777GUEST
And the India-Pakistan war owed to that, which led to the Soviets insinuating a communist regime into Kabul, which then after the Iranian revolution, they feared was going to pivot to the West under domestic auspices of fealty to an Islamist ideology.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The state of Israel was coming into existence.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
In 1946, 1947, when the Zionists were at odds with Britain, Stalin, perhaps out of anti-British calculation or opportunistically hoping to get a foothold there, took the side of the former During all of 1947, Stalin, acting through Gromyko in the UN, actively supported the idea of the creation of an independent Jewish state in Palestine and supplied the Zionists with a critical supply of Cheshozh Levak-made weapons.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
In May 1948, only two days after the Israeli Declaration of Nationhood, the USSR officially recognized that country and condemned the hostile actions, and condemned the hostile actions of Arabs.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
I've cited this before.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
The Soviets created the state of Israel.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
And the U.S., when they put their arms embargo on the area, just meant that it was just the Arabs because Stalin was supplying the Jews.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
And Gromyko, as I think I've mentioned many times before, made this impassioned speech at the UN about Jewish suffering and how they need this state here.
Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
And I think right after that speech, Arabs burned down the Communist Party headquarters in Damascus, Syria.
ThomasGUEST
And the Soviets, and like I said before, in my opinion, the shadow executive of the Soviet Union during the Brezhnev era was Andropov.
ThomasGUEST
Ustinov and Gromyko with a drop off being out front, as it were, the Soviets managed to flip India to the Soviet camp.
ThomasGUEST
So Washington in turn was able to convert Pakistan into a client regime, which remains to this day.
ThomasGUEST
And the India-Pakistan war owed to that, which led to the Soviets insinuating a communist regime into Kabul, which then after the Iranian revolution, they feared was going to pivot to the West under domestic auspices of fealty to an Islamist ideology.
Thomas777GUEST
And I mean, like I've said, I believe I'm not a Sovietologist and I'm not a Russia expert at all.
Thomas777GUEST
But I do know something, and it's clear to me that post-Khrushchev, there was a shadow trifecta of Andropov, Ustinov, and Gromyko with a real Soviet executive.
Thomas777GUEST
Brezhnev was a front man, which made sense because before he became kind of elderly and compromised.
Thomas777GUEST
People liked Brezhnev, and he resonated with the people.
Bob PackwoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And Fulbright goes, I don't know.
Bob PackwoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
if my good friend from Washington has had a chance yet to digest the remarks of Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko in Warsaw three weeks ago, in which he indicated that the Soviet Union wanted to reach a new era of détente, a new era of friendship, a new era of cordiality with the United States.
Bob PackwoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And doesn't my friend from Washington think that before we rush pell-mell into this unproven missile system, we should give just some little credence to the words of the Soviet foreign minister.
Bob PackwoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You have to picture this.
Bob PackwoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Scoop points at him like this, and he goes, let me call a memory for the senator from Arkansas.
Bob PackwoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he moves his finger all the way around the semicircle.
Bob PackwoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He says, and to the others who weren't here that day, The morning in October of 1962, when President Kennedy called Foreign Minister Gromyko into his office and asked if the Soviets had any missiles in Cuba, no.
Bob PackwoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Had any Warsaw Pact country missiles been transported on Soviet ships to Cuba? No.
ThomasGUEST
On every front, the Soviets are losing the Cold War.
ThomasGUEST
Meanwhile, the Politburo, which presumably the trifecta of—because this book was written in 78—the trifecta of Andropov, Gromyko, and Ustinov is kind of like the real—or the triumvirate, rather.
ThomasGUEST
They're the real executive of the USSR with the increasingly kind of disabled Brezhnev as the figurehead.
ThomasGUEST
And Andropov, or his counterpart in the story, he basically drops the same speech that he did in 80 or 81, where he talked about how the Soviet Union could not compete in the information revolution and the amount of computing power in the country was pathetic compared to any developed state.
Bob HopeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's no more room between my shoulder blades.
Bob HopeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, with a little concentration, I may become another Gromyko.
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speaker_27VOICE_ACTOR
Blundering American idiot.
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