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Oh, Mr. Nyet: your book was dense and heavy, in both words and weight. Still, it was a very readable tome by someone I think really did care for his country and really wanted world peace; even if that meant political domination/oppression without nuclear destruction. Gromyko was a Soviet apologist; he'd have to be.

Gromyko had Baltic, Czech, and Hungarian blood on his hands, just like America has Gazan, Haitian, and Philippine blood on its hands. No one is going to declare themselves to be cunning, devious, and
underhanded: Gromyko may have been, but I truly think that all he did was for the safety of the Russian people and not for his personal gain.

Now, lets look at folks like Lavrov, Putin, and Trump. The difference in character is crystal clear.

There were a few surprises in the book:

His open admiration of FDR;

His observation that "with the aid of wealth and technology, mankind is capable of creating something completely alien to his nature";

His open disappointment in modern Soviet architecture as "bland and indefinable";

and his use of the term "rococo" to describe one nation's response to a policy question. Not "evasive", but "rococo". You gotta love a guy who can use the word rococo.

His dismissal of Dubcek is unforgivable.

An honest bio? To a point. I'm sure he omitted more than he fabricated, if he did any of the latter.

I used my DSA membership card as the bookmark.

I did not read the Foreword by Kissinger because IDGAFF what Kissinger has to say about anything.