МИД. Министры иностранных дел. Романтики и циники

IS Ivanov - the thirteenth head of the foreign affairs department of our country since October 1917. For comparison, more than twenty ministers of the interior and heads of state security have changed over these decades. Among this damned dozen diplomat ministers were three academicians (Primakov, Molotov, Vyshinsky) and one corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Shepilov). There were brilliantly educated people and those who did not know foreign languages ​​at all and had never been abroad before being appointed minister. Eleven of the thirteen ministers were severely criticized, eight of them were dismissed or resigned themselves. The reader will quickly see that this book, written by renowned columnist Leonid Mlechin, is not only about people's commissars and foreign ministers, foreign policy and diplomacy. This is another look at the history of our country from 1917 to the present day...