he acted as deputy to its General Secretary, Georgi Dimitrov. In 1944-52, he held the largely meaningless post of Foreign Minister of Ukraine. In 1952-53, he was Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations. Later life and career During the purges of 1936-40, almost every Old Bolshevik with a past link with Trotsky was killed or imprisoned, except Manuilsky, whom Stalin despised but by whom he did not feel in any way threatened. In 1939, he told Dimitrov: "Manuilsky is a toady! He was a Trotskyite! We criticised him for keeping quiet and not speaking out when the purges of Trotskyite bandits were going on, and now he has started toadying!" The Montenegrin communist Milovan Djilas, who met Manuilsky in 1944, admired his learning and writing talent, but remembered him as "a slight and already hunched veteran, dark-haired, with a clipped moustache [who] spoke with a lisp, almost gently and – what astonished me at the time – without much energy." Seeing him again five years later, Djilas thought him an "almost senile, little old man who was rapidly disappearing as he slid down the steep ladder of the Soviet hierarchy." See also Mezhraiontsy Communist Party of Poland List of delegates of the 2nd Comintern congress List of national leaders of Ukraine Ukrainian SSR Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu Christian Rakovsky Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations References External links Walter Lacquer, Russia and Germany; A Century of Conflict, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1965. 1883 births 1959 deaths Burials at Baikove Cemetery People from Khmelnytskyi Oblast People from Volhynian Governorate Ukrainian people in the Russian Empire Mezhraiontsy Old Bolsheviks Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union members First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) First convocation members of the Soviet of the Union Second convocation members of the Soviet of the Union Third convocation members of the Soviet of the Union Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) politicians Permanent Representatives of Ukraine to the United Nations Recipients of the Order of Lenin Soviet foreign ministers of Ukraine Land cultivation ministers of Ukraine Executive Committee of the Communist International Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Ukrainian revolutionaries