Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign Commissar Molotov walked in briskly at six minutes past eight. He sat down and spread out a typewritten paper. To Moscow's 40-odd foreign correspondents he said: "I should like to inform you gentlemen of the decisions taken with regard to the Government of Bulgaria...
Slight, blond, horn-rimmed Interpreter Pavlov, who translated for Stalin at Teheran, translated sentence by sentence. Once Molotov broke off a sentence to ask for a match. Then he said: "The Soviet Union will from this time be in a state of war with Bulgaria...
...Joachim von Ribbentrop and Viacheslav Molotov had signed the Russian-German pact in Moscow. Twelve hours after its ratification on Aug. 31, Hitler gave the signal that sent the German armored divisions rumbling across the frontier against the Polish cavalry, the Luftwaffe against the all but defenseless Polish cities. Thus, on the fifth anniversary of World War II, the war was back where it started...
Warsaw was in flames. The partisanforces of General Bor which nearly four weeks ago had risen at the approach of the Red armies, fought fires and Germans with equal gallantry. From housetops they dropped Molotov cocktails on Germantanks. Their women operated 100 field kitchens and first-aid posts.Unable to reach Warsaw's cemeteries, they buried their dead in parks and public squares. Their food and water were running short...
When there are long Government documents to record, Izvestia produces some extraordinary issues. Example: during the last meeting of the Supreme Soviet, Izvestia reported proceedings and the complete text of Viacheslav Molotov's speech in all 16 major languages of the Soviet Republics. Since it speaks for the Government...