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| | Vyacheslav Molotov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (Russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Мо́лотов) (February 25, 1890 (O.S) (March 9, 1890 (N.S))–November 8, 1986), Soviet politician and diplomat, was a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protege of Joseph Stalin, to the 1950s, when he was dismissed from office by Nikita Khrushchev. |
 | | Molotov was born in the village of Kukarka (now Sovietsk in Kirov Oblast) as Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin (Скря́бин), the son of a shop clerk. |
 | | In 1913 Molotov was again arrested and deported to Irkutsk, but in 1915 he escaped and returned to the capital. |
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