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Andrey Vyshinsky was born in Odessa, Russia, on 28th November, As a young man he joined the Social Democratic Party. Lenin argued for a small party of professional revolutionaries with a large fringe of non-party sympathisers and supporters. Martov disagreed believing it was better to have a large party of activists. Martov won the vote but Lenin was unwilling to accept the result and formed a faction known as the Bolsheviks.

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Those who remained loyal to Martov became known as Mensheviks. Vyshinsky became a lawyer and after the October Revolution he joined the Bolsheviks. He taught law at Moscow State University until becoming a state prosecutor. Between and Vyshinsky prosecuted many leading politicians accused of conspiring against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet government.

In Vyshinsky was given the responsibility of managing the occupation of Latvia. He also helped establish communism in Romania before becoming foreign minister in March,