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  Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (February 25, 1890 - November 8, 1986) was a Soviet politician.
Molotov died on November 8, 1986, in Moscow, USSR, two years after the Communist Party rehabilitated him for his involvement in an attempted coup in 1957.
The Molotov cocktail is named after him, because this weapon was created by the Finnish Army when he served as Secretary of War of the USSR at the time of the Russo-Finnish Wars of the early 1940s.
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 Vyacheslav Molotov - Uncyclopedia
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov November 8, 1986), Soviet politician, giver of rim jobs and failed bartender, was a leading figure in the Sobeit government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protege of Ultra Jesus, to the 1950s, when he was dismissed from office by the artist formerly know as God.
A clear sign of Molotov's precarious position was the arrest of his Jewish wife, Polina Zhemchuzhina, in December 1948 for "treason" (she had been a supporter of the wartime Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and a friend of the purged dramatist Solomon Mikhoels and of Golda Meir, the first Israeli ambassador to the Soviet Union).
Molotov was expelled from the Politburo and the Central Committee, and banished as ambassador to Mongolia.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Vyacheslav_Molotov   (2450 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Vyacheslav Molotov
Molotov and Stalin himself were the only senior revolutionary Bolsheviks to survive the Great Purges of the 1930s.
Following Stalin's death in 1953, Molotov found himself at odds with the reformist policies of Stalin's eventual successor, Nikita Khrushchev, and was strongly opposed to Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin.
Molotov was allowed to rejoin the party in 1984, but this was a purely symbolic gesture.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Vyacheslav_Molotov   (766 words)

  
 Molotov cocktail
A Molotov cocktail is a crude incendiary weapon which consists of a glass bottle filled with flammable liquid, usually gasoline (petrol) (methanol or ethanol, often mixed with tar are other common choices), and a rag stuffed in the mouth of the bottle.
Molotov cocktails are easy to make and are the standard weaponry of guerrilla warfare and violent rioters.
The name "Molotov cocktail" is derived from Vyacheslav Molotov, who was the Foreign Minister and Secretary of War of the Soviet Union during World War II.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pe/Petrol_bomb.html   (179 words)

  
 Vyacheslav Molotov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Molotov remained at the head of the Sovnarkom until May 6, 1941, when Stalin took over as the official head of the Soviet government.
In George Orwell novel Animal Farm, the pig Squealer is a parody of Molotov.
V.M. Molotov and the Liquidation of Socialism in the USSR (Maoist praise of Molotov)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vyacheslav_Molotov   (1629 words)

  
 CNN Cold War - Profile: Vyacheslav Mikhaylovic Molotov
Molotov became first deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1941), and a member of the State Defense Committee (the Soviet war cabinet).
After Germany invaded the U.S.S.R., Molotov negotiated mutual-aid treaties with the British and the United States and attended the Allied conferences at Tehran (1943), Yalta (1945) and Potsdam (1945).
Molotov became minister of state control in November 1957 but lost all his posts in June when he was accused of having joined the anti-party group trying to depose Khrushchev.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/molotov   (365 words)

  
 Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Molotov, the son of middle-class parents, was born in Kukarka, Russia, on 25th February, 1890.
In 1921 Molotov was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party and three years later became a member of the Politburo.
Molotov's first major act as foreign minister was to sign a nonaggression and friendship pact with the Nazi opposite number, Joachim von Ribbentrop.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSmolotov.htm   (1753 words)

  
 Citizen Kurchatov - Molotov
Molotov joined the Bolsheviks in 1906 at the age of 16.
When Lenin died and Stalin took control of the government, Molotov was named premier of the USSR in 1930.
Molotov was soon relieved of all duties and even kicked out of the Communist Party.
www.pbs.org /opb/citizenk/newweapon/molotov.html   (224 words)

  
 MundoRockero - Molotov - Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (n.) Born 1890, died 1986.
Molotov continued to successfully tour both Latin America and the United States, and began headlining for the increasingly popular Watcha Tour along with Café Tacuba.
Molotov also headlined with other popular American punk rock bands in the Van's Warped tour throughout the United State, which increased their American fan base.
www.mundorockero.com /spotlight_molotov.asp   (668 words)

  
 Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
MOLOTOV, VYACHESLAV MIKHAILOVICH [Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich], 1890-1986, Soviet political leader.
On the eve of the February Revolution of 1917, Molotov was one of the few leading Bolsheviks actually in Russia, and after the October Revolution he rose rapidly in the party and was a strong supporter of Stalin.
After the German invasion (1941) of Russia Molotov helped to strengthen the Soviet alliance with the West, shared in the founding of the United Nations, and took part in all major international conferences until 1949, when Andrei Vishinsky succeeded him as foreign minister.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-molotovv.html   (419 words)

  
 Vyacheslav Molotov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Soviet political figure Vyacheslav Molotov was a close aide to Joseph Stalin.
Molotov oversaw the forced collectivization of the Ukraine that brought about the devastating Soviet famine in the 1920's - 30's.
From 1939 to 1949, Molotov served as Foreign Minister.
www.multied.com /Bio/people/Molotov.html   (65 words)

  
 GI -- World War II Commemoration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Molotov began his political activity as a student in Kazan during the Revolution of 1905 and joined the Bolsheviks in 1906.
Molotov was succeeded as foreign minister by Andrei Y. Vyshinsky in 1949, but he retained the post of deputy premier under Stalin.
Molotov died in Moscow on Nov. 8, 1986.
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 Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The Soviet statesman Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (1890-1986) was second in command during Stalin's regime and served as the chief Soviet diplomat in World War II.
Vyacheslav Molotov was born on March 9, 1890, in the village of Kukarka (now Sovetsk) in what is now the Kirov Oblast.
Molotov himself was made emissary to Outer Mongolia, roughly the equivalent of exile, and was forced to remain there until 1960.
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 Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Molotov, the son of middle-class parents, was born in Kukarka, Russia, on February 25, 1890.
After the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924 Molotov switched his support to Joseph Stalin and played an important role in the launching of the Five Year Plan.
Vyacheslav Molotov died in Moscow on November 8, 1986.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Molotov.html   (625 words)

  
 Glossary of People: Mo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Molotov escaped from prison in Siberia in 1915 and returned to Petrograd to become, with Alexander Shlyapnikov, one of the leading Bolsheviks in Petrograd.
Molotov became president of the Comintern from 1928-1934, president of the Council of People's Commissars, 1930-41, and foreign minister, 1939-49, 1953-56, in which capacity he was the signatory for the Pact with Hitler in 1939.
In 1957 Molotov was removed from his post in the Central Comittee, and became USSR ambassador to Mongolia due to his opposition to Khrushev's de-Stalinization program.
www.marxists.org /glossary/people/m/o.htm   (2124 words)

  
 Nov 8, 1986 - Maker of the Molotov cocktail passes away   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
WRONG - the Molotov Cocktail was invented by the Finns during the Russian-Finnish War of 1939.
Molotov didn't invent the cocktail that was named in his "honor." The Hungarians used these improvised "bombs" against the tanks that came to crush them in 1956.
Molotov was the Foreign Minister of the USSR, when it invaded Finnland prior to WW II.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1517990/posts   (683 words)

  
 Education World® - *History : By Region : Europe : Former Soviet Republics
Molotov's Broadcast on the Outbreak of War With Germany Find the complete text of the Russian foreign minister's speech on June 22, 1941, declaring a state of war with the Nazis.
Molotov, Vyacheslav Simon Wiesenthal Center Reports on the Soviet Foreign Minister's delusion while Hitler ignored the terms of their NonAggression pact.
Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich MSN Encarta Russian revolutionary was premier of the USSR from 1930 to 1941 and a staunch supported of Stalin.
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 Saving Private Ryan: Molotov cocktail
The Molotov cocktail was named after Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, the Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949.
Molotov was hated by the Finns, and they thus named the makeshift weapon after him.
Molotov cocktails are thrown onto a German tank destroyer by two paratroopers during the Battle of Ramelle.
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 Molotov Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich (1890-1986), Russian revolutionary, who became one of the most important Soviet functionaries during the era of...
The provisional government immediately enacted a number of liberal laws, also abolishing the police and gendarmes and replacing them by a people's...
Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich (quotations): Poland: That bastard of the Versailles…
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 Covering the Map of the World -- The Half-Century Legacy of the Yalta Conference, Part 6
In one of these messages, Molotov told his ambassador: "We concluded an 'Agreement with Germany' because a war is required in Europe" between the capitalist nations, to open the door for the future communization of the European continent.
Molotov went on to explain that any peace settlement that would end the war between China and Japan "might destroy our work proceeding among the suppressed peoples of Asia, and.
Roosevelt said that he saw "no difficulty whatsoever in regard to the southern half of Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands going to Russia at the end of the war." He reminded Stalin of his suggestion at Teheran that "the Soviet Union be given the use of a warm water port" at Dairen.
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 Vyacheslav Molotov - The Nazi Invasion of Russia
Vyacheslav Molotov - The Nazi Invasion of Russia
Vyacheslav Molotov (1889-1986) was Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union at the time of the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact, August 23, 1939.
News of the Pact stunned the world and paved the way for the beginning of World War Two with Hitler assured the Germans would not have to immediately fight a war on two fronts.
www.historyplace.com /speeches/molotov.htm   (829 words)

  
 JOSEPH STALIN - FRAGMENT SIGNED 11/1943 CO-SIGNED BY:VYACHESLAV MIKHAILOVICH MOLOTOV
Molotov" as Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, each in purple ink, 1p, 8½x3½.
Because the Council of Ministers was formed in March 1946, and MOLOTOV relinquished his post as Foreign Minister in March 1949, the document from which this was removed must have been signed between 1946-1949.
Molotov, whose name has been lent to the famous "cocktail" of bottles of inflammable liquid he ordered produced during WWII, is also scarce.
www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/3_2001/leaders/JOSEPH_STALIN.htm   (481 words)

  
 Post World Industries-Library-Bio-Molotov Cocktail
The Molotov Cocktail is a simple, hand held incendiary device, commonly used by guerrilla forces and rioters in urban settings.
The worldwide popularity of the Molotov stems from it’s ease of manufacture, the easy acquisition of it’s basic ingredients, and the non-incriminating nature of having all of the unmixed ingredients on hand.
A Molotov bottle that is filled completely with liquid will not explode upon impact, but will rather splash, and the liquid will catch fire more slowly.
www.postworldindustries.com /library_text/library_bios/bio_molotov.html   (384 words)

  
 Dave & Vyacheslav: The Info
I liked comics, I was fairly fond of myself, and Vyacheslav Molotov’s involvement in whatever I was going to do seemed to be sort of a given, so all I had to do was assemble these elements together in a workable form.
The main one is actually pretty close to what I said in the comic: I read Harry Turtledove’s World War series, which Vyacheslav was one of the main characters of (and this series is 8 books long.
Vyacheslav is Russian, Colin is Scottish, Bj is half Irish and half Chinese...
www.bjorn-comic.com /dandv/faq.htm   (597 words)

  
 The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: The Documents
Moreover, despite the provisions on strict secrecy, Stalin and Molotov leaked the fact of their secret agreement with the Germans on the spheres of influence during negotiations with Baltic leaders in Moscow as part of the Soviet strategy of pressuring the Baltic governments into accepting the mutual defense pacts with the USSR.
Since, by the inclusion of the Suwalki tract in the German sphere of influence a difficulty in drawing the border line resulted, we agreed that in case the Soviets should take special measures in Lithuania, a small strip of territory in the southwest of Lithuania, accurately marked on the map, should fall to Germany.
He then informed me that Molotov had told Urbšys that Germany had laid claim to a strip of Lithuanian territory, the limits of which included the city and district of Naumiestis and continued on past the vicinity of Mariampolė.
www.lituanus.org /1989/89_1_03.htm   (4407 words)

  
 TIME.com: Vyacheslav's Better Baggage -- Nov. 21, 1955 -- Page 1
Back in Geneva, face to face with the Western Big Three around the green-topped table in the Salle du Conseil, Molotov revealed with relish that the "better baggage" he brought from Moscow was a fresh blast of cold war.
In Molotov's brutal frankness, the Western Ministers recognized a deliberate shattering of the Geneva spirit.
Molotov had accepted the onus of keeping Germany divided: the West would therefore see to it that the onus stuck.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,866621,00.html   (673 words)

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