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- Birth nameVyacheslav Mikhaylovich Skryabin
- Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov (1890 - 8 November 1986) was a Russian politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik, and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s onward. He served as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars from 1930 to 1941 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1956.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- Soviet government and Communist party official.
- The firebomb weapon called a Molotov cocktail--a bottle or jar filled with gasoline with a rag stuffed in the top as a fuse--is named for him.
- He was Soviet foreign minister from 1939 to 1949 and 1953 to 1956.
- His wife was imprisoned by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
- During the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact talks in Berlin prior to World War II, he was so afraid of being poisoned by his "hosts" that he refused to remove his spectacles for fear they could be tainted by the Germans.
- [on Poland] The monstrous bastard of the Treaty of Versailles.
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