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Also Known As Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko
Born July 18, 1909 • Belarus
Died July 2, 1989 (aged 79)
Title / Office head of state (1985-1988), Soviet Union • foreign minister (1957-1985), Soviet Union
Political Affiliation Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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