Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Adventure. These are the bare external facts of the career of Molotov the Communist. Neglected by many of those who watch him at Paris is the drama-the Great Adventure of the Russian Revolution-which really molded his political character and now determines his every action on the international stage. Molotov threw in his lot with a little group who believed that by brains and ruthlessness and unity they could overthrow a society that other European revolutionaries watched with patient hope for the worst, but no determined plan of attack...
...Molotov and his leaders swiftly rent the ties that bound Russia-Czar, Church, family, village, the fatherland. The Communist Party established its own ties and it held on through foreign intervention and civil war. Unlike other revolutions, its victory did not wash away as the victors relaxed. The victors never relaxed. Though the Trotskyites scream to the contrary, Russia today has not departed far from the magnificent evil of Lenin's conception...
Unity or Else. The lesson of this great adventure was not lost on Molotov-especially that bloody part of the moral that relates to unity or "party discipline." Europe's radical parties in the time of Molotov's youth created futility out of internal dissension. Among the Old Bolsheviks themselves unity has been maintained by terror. Of the Politburo as it existed in 1925 when Molotov was raised to it, three men-Stalin, Voroshilov and Molotov-are left. Tomsky committed suicide; Kalinin and Dzerzhinsky died; Trotsky, Bukharin, Zinoviev, Rykov, Rudzutak, Petrovsky, Uglanov and Kamenev were all efficiently purged...
...voice belonged to stocky, sandy-haired British Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Hector McNeil. As Molotov doggedly insisted that voting procedure was a substantive matter requiring a two-thirds vote, McNeil's pawky accent cut the smoke. "How can the voting procedure be substantive when, by very definition, the Rules Committee is only qualified to deal with procedural matters?" he snapped. Then, for about ten minutes, the young (36) Scot assailed the Russian position, with such impolite epithets as "baffling," "bewildering," "illogical," "absolute nonsense...
...Russians showed once more that they like a man who stands up to them. As they had sat down at the conference table that day, Molotov had asked McNeil through an interpreter if he was prepared for a long session. "There are two things we Scots have in common with you Russians," McNeil replied. "We get better as the night grows longer, and we like to drink with our chess...