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Madeleine Albright
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15 May 1937 - 23 March 2022
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Madeleine Albright was born on May 15, 1937 in Prague, in the family of a diplomat, and then her name was Maria Jana Korbel. After the capture of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany, her family fled to England, after the end of the war returned to their homeland, but in 1948 again emigrated, this time to the United States. In 1968, Maria-Jana, who changed her name to Madeleine (she took Albright's surname after marriage), graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree, and eight years later
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Madeleine Albright was born on May 15, 1937 in Prague, in the family of a diplomat, and then her name was Maria Jana Korbel. After the capture of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany, her family fled to England, after the end of the war returned to their homeland, but in 1948 again emigrated, this time to the United States. In 1968, Maria-Jana, who changed her name to Madeleine (she took Albright's surname after marriage), graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree, and eight years later she received a PhD there. Albright began her political career as a Democratic activist, joined Senator Edmund Muskie’s team in 1972, and later became his legislative assistant. In 1978, she was appointed a member of the National Security Council under President Carter and was responsible for public relations. After the defeat of the Democrats in the fight for the White House in 1982-1993, Madeleine Albright was a professor at Georgetown University, led a seminar on the politics of the USSR and Eastern Europe, led the program “Women in Foreign Policy”, was president of the Center for National Policy. In 1992, Albright became an adviser to Bill Clinton and, upon his election as president, he appointed her in 1993 as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Subsequently, in 1997, she (the first woman) took the post of Secretary of State in the Clinton administration. Albright was a supporter of the hard line of the United States in international relations, advocated strengthening the position of the United States in NATO, for the full protection of US interests, without stopping at the use of military force, which was demonstrated in the Balkans.