Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This bit of propaganda, making use of an institution as British as mutton pie, followed Foreign Minister Molotov's announcement of wider autonomy for member states of the U.S.S.R. (TIME, Feb. 14). It also drove home the point that the Russians are determined to regain and keep the briefly free (1918-40) Baltic countries...
Stocky, witty Alexander Yevdokimovich Korneichuk, successful Ukrainian dramatist, member of the Supreme Soviet and, for the past year, a Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs under Molotov, resigned his post the day after his chief announced the new autonomy. Two days later Kiev announced appointment of a Commissar of Foreign Affairs for the Ukraine: Alexander Yevdokimovich Korneichuk, husband of Polish-born Wanda Wasilewska (the leader of the Union of Polish Patriots), firm believer in close harmony among Ukrainians, Czechs and Poles to block revival of Prussian militarism, well-trained disciple of the Molotov method...
...Chatting with Molotov . . . President Roosevelt picked up the inkwell on his desk, turned it over in his hand . . . Molotov . . . laughed" (TIME...
...Stalingrad, the Russians mastered the defensive weapons: the anti-tank rifle, the mine, the Molotov cocktail. In the winter drive which followed, they mastered the weapons of attack-artillery, tanks, cavalry...
...Chatting with Molotov one day in his room in the new yellow brick Russian Embassy, President Roosevelt picked up the inkwell on his desk, turned it over in his hand. Then he noticed the trademark: "Made in Germany." Molotov blushed, but finally laughed...