Elliott, to meet key players of the Soviet military, including Marshall Malinovsky, the Soviet minister of Defense, Marshall Zakharov, the chief of general staff of the USSR Armed Forces, and Yakov Malik, deputy minister of Foreign Affairs.Footnote 164 In the middle of 1963, Victor Adegbite, the chief architect of Ghanas National Construction Corporation, went to the Soviet Union to study housing.Footnote 165 Fourteen Soviet teachers, comprising ten women and four men, came to Ghana to teach mathematics and science at Ghanas secondary schools (Figure 1.1).Footnote 166 Soviet professor Valentin Postnikov, a rector at the Voronezh University in the USSR, arrived in Ghana to give a lecture on the organisation of higher education in the Soviet Union in the field of natural and technical sciences.Footnote 167 These talks were part of broader efforts to internationalize Ghanas educational system.Footnote 168 On December 15, 1960, Regina Asamany, a member of the Ghanaian parliament, wrote to Khrushchev asking whether five Ghanaian police officers, four Ghanaian poultry farmers, three sculptors, and three co-operative society leaders from Ghana could visit the USSR for two to three months in the spring of 1961.Footnote 169 Asmany was one of the few Ghanaian women parliamentarians.Footnote 170 She hailed from Kpandu in the Volta Region,Footnote 171 and was, according to historian Kate Skinner, the only woman to make it into the first rank of the Togoland Congress leadership in the 1950s.Footnote 172 After British Togoland joined Ghana, Asmany joined the CPP.Footnote 173 Now, as a key member of parliament, Asamany hoped that the aforementioned Ghanaians would be able to study how the Soviets organized their police force and how they used scientific methods to rear birds on poultry farms
24 Tennant, The American Cigarette Industry, pp
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