Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remarkable London speech, Vyacheslav Molotov made a number of assertions. Many of them were of a more or less technical nature with which the average German, for instance, was not acquainted. They bore examination...
...Molotov said: "Under the Potsdam Agreement, reparation deliveries of equipment from the Western zones of Germany are provided for in respect to 20 Allied countries . . . including the U.S.S.R. [So far they have] received such equipment to the amount of $33 million only. ... Is it not a mockery...
...Molotov: "The main attack is now being launched against reparations on deliveries from so-called current production. . . . There are no current reparations deliveries from the Western zones while the level of industry in the Anglo-American zone reaches only to 35% of the 1938 level. From the Soviet zone of Germany, current reparations deliveries are taking place and the level of industry there has already reached 52% of the 1938 level . . . although conditions there for the rehabilitation of industry are more difficult. ... It follows that reparations deliveries, far from hindering the rehabilitation of industry, facilitate this rehabilitation...
...Molotov: "Another [U.S.] policy is to retard the rehabilitation of German industry. . . . This cannot go on much longer...
...Truth: Molotov and his colleagues have denounced the U.S., ad nauseam, not for hindering German industry but for rebuilding it too well. Molotov has fiercely opposed U.S. proposals to raise the ceiling on Germany's industrial output...