Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June 18 Foreign Minister Molotov quoted the foregoing joint communique to the Supreme Soviet in Moscow, and added: This statement is of great importance to the peoples of the Soviet Union, since the creation of a second front in Europe "will create insuperable difficulties for Hitler's armies on our front...
...After the U.S.S.R.'s Foreign Minister Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov visited London and Washington in May and June, Downing Street and the White House said: Full understanding was reached with regard to the urgent task of creating a second front in Europe...
Grant will teach the techniques and theories of modern guerrilla warfare. Instruction will include among other things, how a German tank works, how to make Molotov cocktails, and how to deal with sentries...
...time for the diplomatic niceties and strategic reticences which blunted the first announcements after Molotov visited Eden and Roosevelt (TIME, June 22). Last week Moscow's spokesmen did what none had done before: they said flatly that the U.S. and Great Britain had decided "to open a second front in Europe in 1942." Commissars in the field with the Red Army quoted this unqualified declaration to the troops-and Moscow let its allies know that the Red Army had heard of the promise. Russia in her hour of peril had given the promise of hope to her troops...
...long had men trained in anti-tank tactics, armed with stationary artillery to defend infantry positions, supplemented with a bag of tank-hampering tricks including "asparagus beds" (barricades) and traps borrowed from the engineers, "Molotov cocktails" learned from the Spanish, and "boom biscuits" (tank mines). At Camp Hood men learn to use all these, but most important, they are learning how to handle tank destroyers. The phrase "antitank" is disappearing in favor of "tank destroyer...