Talk:Andrei Gromyko

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Is this a typo?
"In the 1940s Western pundits called him Mr. Nyet ("Mr. No") or "Grim Grom", because of his frequent use of the Soviet veto in the UN Security Council." Shouldn't that be the 1960's?  1940's seems too early. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimindc (talk • contribs) 18:17, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Surname
Is it true that Gromyko's family's original surname was "Katz," as some websites state? Badagnani 05:53, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * No idea. But I think Gromyko was not his name of birth, at least I remember having heard or read about this. Could you provide some links? --Maxl 21:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Birth name was Gromyko, in keeping with the rural Russian custom of taking one's village name (in this case Starye Gromyki, or "Old Gromykos") as one's surname. Families in Starye Gromyki adopted informal surnames to distinguish from one another; Andrei Gromyko's family went by Burmakov. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bush555 (talk • contribs) 13:03, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Copyedit
Hi

During the copyedit a few things came to light which need attention:
 * "Andrei was not a very educated man, as he had only attended four years of school, but knew how to read and write." - not clear as to which Andrei it refers to, Gromyko or Matveyevich
 * "Gromyko received a very small stipend to live on, but still had a strong nostalgia for those days." - What days ? The previous sentence says he was a volunteer but there is no link shown between the stipend and volunteer work. Does this mean he was not permitted to volunteer as he now received a stipend?
 * "Grinevich gave birth to two children, Anatolij and Emilia." Were the Gromyko's or someone else's?
 * "After that day of pleasantry Gromyko for the first time in his life wanted to enter academic life." - was he not already in it as he was on a course of secondary education? Does this "academic" perhaps relate to further education in a Universtiy or similar?
 * "In the same period the Republic of China (Taiwan) used the veto once" - does this mean on the Taiwan issue, or was it a Taiwanese representative?
 * "This could help explain his so-called "boring" personality and the mastery of his own ego." - possibly OR as is unsourced.

Chaosdruid (talk) 12:59, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed --TIAYN (talk) 12:11, 13 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Apologies - I placed (UN) in the header to remind me to change that section as there needs to be a "United Nations (UN)" somewhere near the beginning to explain all the UNs in that section. I obviously forgot to do that - DOH! - if you wouldn't mind accommodating? Chaosdruid (talk) 21:37, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed. --TIAYN (talk) 21:57, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I also edited out the "Ambassordorship" usage, although the page Ambasador clearly uses it. :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 22:14, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

So he was running the show when he was 13 years old?
The article says he was running the local chapter of the Communist Youth League in early 1923, when he would have been 13 years old, but the Komsomol article says only children 14 or older were allowed to join, let alone lead chapters. Also it seems he remembers German soldiers attacking in World War I as a pivotal event in his life, but he would have been just turning 5 years old at that time. Maybe he was just really really precocious, but I can say when I was 5 years old I was finishing potty training and chasing other kids around the kindergarten, not thinking deep patriotic thoughts about love for my home country. Basically since both of these statements seem to be sourced to his autobiography, but have been in this article for a long time unchallenged, I just want to know if there is potentially an error somewhere. — Soap — 16:44, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
 * NO answer? — Soap — 17:50, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I'll check it out. --TIAYN (talk) 17:57, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

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