Andrey Vyshinsky

Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky (??????? ??????????? ??????????) (December 10 , 1883–November 22, 1954), also spelt Vishinsky, Vyshinski, was a Soviet jurist and later diplomat. Vyshinsky spoke some English and excellent French.

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December 10 - November 28 - Old Style - 1883 - November 22 - 1954 - Soviet - Diplomat

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He became a Menshevik in 1903 and joined the Bolsheviks in 1920.

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Menshevik - 1903 - Bolsheviks - 1920

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In 1935 he became Procurator General of the USSR, the legal mastermind of Stalin's Great Purge. He put a "theoretical" legal base under the treason trials. The cornerstones of Vyshinsky's theory were:

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1935 - Procurator General of the USSR - Stalin - Great Purge

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• Criminal law is a tool of the class struggle
• "Confession is a queen over all sorts of evidence".

His monograph that justifies these postulates, Theory of Judicial Proofs (?????? ???????? ?????????????), was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1947.

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He presided at the major show trials of the Great Purge.

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Show trials - Great Purge

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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.

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1939 - 1944 - Commissar - 1940 - 1949 - 1953 - Soviet Academy of Sciences - United Nations

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