Sandino: To an extent, Mikoyan is much more a diplomat while Molotov really is just a bureaucrat. Mikoyan was and will be here something of a Soviet Kissinger, shuttling in and out of delicate situations to quickly resolve the conflict. Hell IOTL he had to drive an APC through wartorn Budapest to get to his meeting with Imre Nagy. So he'll be fun.
Karelian: Thank you, coming from the author of Prisoners of Silence that mean alot
Kurt_Steiner: Yes, it does seem several post-war Soviet leaders were determined to win back the Chaplin moustache for socialism.
Zzzzz...: Cheers
H.Appleby: Heh, well the next update will show which way the wind blows in Greece. On Israel, I'm not too sure. TBH, Beria did supply them but at Stalin's request before changing his mind and becoming a paranoid anti-semite in the 1950s. Without Stalin around you have Beria whoes closest lieutenants are Jewish, and Molotov whoes wife is Jewish. So Israel, a bunch of dedicated anti-fascists living in communes will probably have Soviet backing for a while longer but unless things change dramaticaly from OTL, I think geopolitics will eventually see Moscow side with the Arabs.
On Beria's moderate foriegn policy, a lot of it came through watching Stalin's last batsh*t insane days and losing all love for Stalinism, and becoming 100% pragmatic. Here not so much but, well you'll see.
Update tonight or tomorrow morning.