| | Andrey Vyshinsky -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | , 1883–November 22, 1954), also spelt Vishinsky, Vyshinski, was a (An elected governmental council in a Communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)) Soviet jurist and later (An official engaged in international negotiations) diplomat. |
 | | He became a (A Russian member of the liberal minority group that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during the Russian Revolution) Menshevik in 1903 and joined the (A Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party) Bolsheviks in 1920. |
 | | He presided at the major (A trial held for show; the guilt of the accused person has been decided in advance) show trials of the (additional info and facts about Great Purge) Great Purge. |
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