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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Ambassador Shkvartsev's chief, Premier and Foreign Minister Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, learned of these conversations he was reminded of a historic parallel. At Tilsit Napoleon proposed to Tsar Alexander I that the two rulers share Europe. If Alexander had stuck to his agreement there would have been no Franco-Russian war. Said Viacheslav Mikhailovich to his chief, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin: "Why not meditate on this example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: What Molotov Wants | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

Within six weeks Russia occupied and socialized three Baltic republics, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, took outright from Rumania, Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina. Last week the Red Army was feverishly digging in along the east bank of the Prut while Premier Molotov kept southeast Europe sweating in steam from three valves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: What Molotov Wants | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...surprising that Russia's Premier Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov took no trouble to make King Carol's capitulation easy. On the contrary, he handed Rumanian Minister Gheorghe Davidescu a brusque note demanding Bessarabia and northern Bucovina within 24 hours. The ceding of northern Bucovina, which, unlike Bessarabia, Russia never owned, would repay Russia for waiting 20 years for Bessarabia, said Viacheslav Mikhailovich. When Minister Davidescu returned to ask for negotiations to determine the procedure of transfer, Premier Molotov said flatly that the Red Army would begin to move in at 2 that afternoon and gave the Rumanian Army four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Russia on the March Again | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...Maxim Litvinoff replaced by Viacheslav Molotov as Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Five Years of Dates | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...Molotov in speech to Supreme Soviet doubts British sincerity in anti-Hitler campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Five Years of Dates | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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