survivor of Soviet Politburo.

LAMB: We saw Anastas Mikoyan forever in our lives.

MONTEFIORE: Yeah. He came to JFK`s funeral. He was Khrushchev`s representative at JFK`s
funeral, so he was -- he`s part of American history too.

LAMB: So he was at JFK`s funeral; he was also at Lenin`s funeral.

MONTEFIORE: He carried -- that`s right. He`s an amazing character. He carried Lenin`s coffin
and he attended Jack Kennedy`s funeral. That gives you an idea of his span, his political span. A giant of
the 20th century.

MONTEFIORE: Malenkov, flappy, nicknamed "broad-hipped." Didn`t need to shave. A
horrible, sinister character, known by all by the feminine nickname, Melanie, for his feminine -- femininity,
high voice.

LAMB: And who is the gentleman next to him?

MONTEFIORE: Beria. Very unusually dressed as a marshal of the Soviet Union. And we`ve
talked about Beriaan extremely
ugly little man. Once a medical orderly, who was Stalin`s chef de cabinet...

LAMB: Chief of staff.

MONTEFIORE: Chief of staff. I mean, he was really his chief of staff, when the chief of staff at
the White House is a huge, well-known public official. But in their world, the chef de cabinet, the chief of
staff, was this kind of secret person. And he really ran Stalin`s complete political world for him and did
everything.

LAMB: Who was in his family?

MONTEFIORE: Well, he had a -- he had a very pretty wife.

LAMB: What was her name?

MONTEFIORE: Who was called Ronka. And she was like -- Jewish, like many of the women
around these people, she was Jewish, flirtatious, sort of semi-Polish -- she was Lithuanian, which was, you
know, sort of Polish-Lithuanian, from a