Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tanner to Moscow in 1939 before the first Finnish-Soviet war. On that occasion the belly-laughing banker had been given the job of delaying the negotiations as much as possible, so the Finns would get better terms. In most of the talks, while Tanner and Viacheslav Molotov did the hard-headed bargaining, Paasikivi swapped jokes with Stalin and used his chuckle to smooth things over when Tanner got a little heated. But his long-windedness astonished even the Russians...
...children. . . .' I asked him: 'How much do you suppose I pay to the Government in income taxes alone every year, even including my salary as a Government official-more than 60%; whereas Mrs. Davies pays more than 75%. This obviously surprised Mr. Stalin, for he looked at Molotov with a smile and Molotov nodded." Joe Davies described Russia as a great Country Boy going to town, materially, in a great way. But everywhere he noted wage and privilege differentials, the formation of social classes, the re-introduction of private property...
Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov addressed a violent memorandum last week to all nations with which he deals, complaining of German atrocities against Soviet prisoners of war: "Miserable rations of rotten bread or rotten potatoes . . . hands cut off. eyes gouged, stomachs ripped open . . . raping and outraging of the honor of women . . . stripping the wounded naked...
...Germans produced for the foreign press Georg, only son of Foreign Commissar Molotov, as proof that Foreign Commissar Molotov was lying. Georg, the spokesman pointed out, was not starved; he had two hands, two eyes and a sound stomach; he possessed honor intact and was not naked...
...only trouble with this answer, said the Russians (aside from the obvious fallacy of arguing from the particular to the general), was one small error in fact. Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov...