Anastas mikoyan ice cream

Delivery in the Baltics

Delivery of all orders in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia is carried out through Omniva, Venipak Pickup Point parcel terminals and the Venipak courier service.

Latvia

• Delivery to Omniva, Venipak Pickup Point parcel terminals: free for orders of €19.99 or more! For orders of less, the cost of delivery is €2.99.
• Delivery by Venipak courier: free for orders of €19.99 or more! For orders of less, the cost of delivery is €4.99.

Standard delivery times in Latvia are 2-3 business days after the order is processed, depending on the payment method and the delivery location.

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Lithuania, Estonia

• Delivery to Omniva, Venipak Pickup Point parcel terminals: free of charge for orders of €19.99 or more! For ord
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  Anastas Mikoyan: Soviet First Responder and Smiling Diplomat

  Washington D.C., December 18, 2020 – Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan was born on November 25, 1895, in Armenia.  From a modest background and early revolutionary activity in Armenia he joined the Bolsheviks and eventually became one of the most significant statesmen of the Soviet Union. On the 125^th anniversary of his birth, historians still debate his role in Soviet domestic and foreign policy. Soviet folklore had a saying about Mikoyan: “from Ilyich [Vladimir Ilyich Lenin] to Ilyich [Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev] without a heart attack or paralysis,” meaning that he managed to survive the changes of leadership in the USSR for five decades and died from natural causes in peaceful retirement, surrounded by his extensive family. This was no small feat for a prominent member of the Communist Party who lived through Stalinism.

  This posting focuses on Mikoyan’s role in Soviet foreign policy, on his role as a key diplomat, who represented the Soviet Union in the most critical moments of its relations w

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  “We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers—that is not freedom of the press.”

  Who he was

  Anastas Mikoyan was an “early Bolshevik” who was involved in some of the watershed moments in the establishment of the Soviet Union. He was one of the highest-ranking officials in the Soviet Union and was exceptional because he served - and survived - four secretaries general, from Lenin to Brezhnev. 

  Born in Sanahin, in the Lori province of Armenia, he attended Armenian schools and had entered seminary. He left as he started to feel less religious and increasingly interested in the socialist cause. 

  He became a part of the Baku 26, a group of commissars who occupied Baku as part of the Bolshevik Revolution. They were expelled in a battle with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and allies and subsequently captured, but while 25 of the commissars were executed, Mikoyan mysteriously escaped - nothing is known about how. 

  His support for Stalin upon Lenin’s death led him to become an ally