Andrei Gromyko with President Truman and Josef Stalin at the Potsdam Conference
Andrei Gromyko's fluent English and in-deth knowledge of the United States led dictator Josef Stalin to name him ambassador to Washington in 1943 at the unheard age of 34. here, in 1945, Gromyko is seen on hand on the right as President Harry S. Truman (C, with glasses) visits Stalin (L) at the latter's temproary residence for the Potsdam (near Berlin), Germany, Conference held from July 17 till August 2, 1945 to decide about the fate of defeated Germany. (UPI Photo/Files)
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UPI Almanac for Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012.
SHROPSHIRE, England, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- One of several copies of the death mask of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was sold for $5,600 Tuesday at British auction house Mullock's.
RICHLAND CENTER, Wis., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Lana Peters, the daughter of the brutal Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, has died of colon cancer in Wisconsin, a county official said. She was 85.
WARSAW, Poland, March 30 (UPI) -- Some Poles are resorting to mockery to counter to what they see as excessive mourning for late Polish President Lech Kaczynski.
KIEV, Ukraine, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- An explosion destroyed a statue of Josef Stalin in a Ukrainian city just before the year began, police said Saturday.
KIEV, Ukraine, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said President Viktor Yanukovych's position on the 1932-1933 famine is outrageous.
CHICAGO, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say Josef Stalin, who said a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic, had a point -- people don't connect with large tragedies.
ROANOKE, Va., June 15 (UPI) -- Veterans and volunteers at a D-Day memorial in Virginia picketed the site to protest the inclusion of a bust of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, observers said.
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, April 29 (UPI) -- Portraits of Josef Stalin will hang in Vladivostok, Russia, on the anniversary of the Nazis' surrender to the Soviet Union in World War II, officials said.
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, April 12 (UPI) -- Discovery of a mass grave possibly dating to Stalin-era purges has interrupted construction of a road near Vladivostok, Russia, a contractor says.
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