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Andrey Januaryevich Vyshinskiy (Odessa
Odessa

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, Imperial Russia –November 22, 1954, New York
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), was a Russia
Russia

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n and Soviet
Soviet Union

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 jurist and diplomat. He is mostly known as a state prosecutor of Stalin's show trials. He served as the Soviet Foreign Minister
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 from 1949 to 1953. Vyshinsky was of Polish and Russian descent and spoke some English and excellent French.

He became a Menshevik
Menshevik

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 in 1903 and in 1917 he undersigned an order to arrest Lenin according the decision of the Russian Provisional Government
Russian Provisional Government

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Andrey Januaryevich Vyshinskiy (Odessa
Odessa

Odessa or Odesa is the Capital of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major port located on the shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 ....
, Imperial Russia –November 22, 1954, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
), was a Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n and Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 jurist and diplomat. He is mostly known as a state prosecutor of Stalin's show trials. He served as the Soviet Foreign Minister
Foreign Minister of Russia

This page lists foreign ministers of Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation:...
 from 1949 to 1953. Vyshinsky was of Polish and Russian descent and spoke some English and excellent French.

He became a Menshevik
Menshevik

The Mensheviks were a faction of the Russian revolutionary movement that emerged in 1903 after a dispute between Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov, both members of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party....
 in 1903 and in 1917 he undersigned an order to arrest Lenin according the decision of the Russian Provisional Government
Russian Provisional Government

The Russian Provisional government Government was formed in Saint Petersburg in 1917 after the February Revolution and the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia....
.. In 1920, he joined the Bolsheviks.

In 1935 he became Prosecutor General of the USSR
Prosecutor General of the USSR

The Procurator General of the USSR , was the highest functionary of the Office of Public Procurator of the USSR, responsible for the whole system of offices of public procurators and supervision of their activities on the territory of the Soviet Union....
, the legal mastermind of Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953....
's Great Purge
Great Purge

Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin in 1936-1938. Also described as a "Soviet holocaust" by several authors, it involved the purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, repression of kulaks, Red Army leadership, and the persecution of unaffiliat...
. He is widely cited for the principle that "confession of the accused is the queen of evidence". His monograph that justifies this postulate, Theory of Judicial Proofs in Soviet Justice, was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1947. He was the prosecutor at the Moscow Trials
Moscow Trials

The Moscow Trials were a series of trials of political opponents of Joseph Stalin during the Great Purge. Many of the defendants were executed....
 of the Great Purge
Great Purge

Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin in 1936-1938. Also described as a "Soviet holocaust" by several authors, it involved the purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, repression of kulaks, Red Army leadership, and the persecution of unaffiliat...
, lashing its defenseless victims with vituperative, sometimes cruelly witty rhetoric:

During the trials Vyshinsky misappropriated
Misappropriation

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 the house and money of Leonid Serebryakov, one of the defendants of the infamous Moscow Trials
Moscow Trials

The Moscow Trials were a series of trials of political opponents of Joseph Stalin during the Great Purge. Many of the defendants were executed....
, who was later executed

In June, 1940, Vyshinskiy was sent to the Republic of Latvia to supervise establishment of puppet government and incorporation of country into USSR, and later arranged for a communist regime to assume control of Romania in 1945. Later he was among the main accused during the investigation of the occupation of the Baltic states by U.S. Congress Kersten Committee in 1953

He was responsible for the Soviet preparations for the trial of the major war criminals by the International Military Tribunal
Nuremberg Trials

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The positions he held include those of vice-premier (1939–1944), deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs (1940–1949), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1949-1953), Academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1939, and permanent representative of the Soviet Union to the United Nations
United Nations

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He died while in New York and was buried near the Red Square
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