In 1940 Stalin rewarded Vyshinsky by making him a senior official in the Soviet foreign diplomat corps. He accompanied Stalin to the February 1945 [[Yalta conference]], and he was present at Germany's surrender in May 1945. Vyshinsky's international profile increased after the war when he gave several speeches at the [[United Nations]], and he was the Soviet Union's Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1949 to 1953. | In 1940 Stalin rewarded Vyshinsky by making him a senior official in the Soviet foreign diplomat corps. He accompanied Stalin to the February 1945 [[Yalta conference]], and he was present at Germany's surrender in May 1945. Vyshinsky's international profile increased after the war when he gave several speeches at the [[United Nations]], and he was the Soviet Union's Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1949 to 1953. |