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With his neatly trimmed mustache, pursed lips and pince-nez spectacles, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov seemed the embodiment of "the best filing clerk in Russia," as Revolutionary Leader Vladimir Lenin once called him. But his bland appearance, which led one British diplomat to compare him to a "refrigerator when the lights have gone out," was deceptive. In a political and diplomatic career that spanned the first four decades of Soviet history, Molotov earned the sobriquets "Old Stone Bottom" and "Mr. Iron Pants" from those who witnessed his legendary staying power at the negotiating table. Before his death...
Heart-wrenching drama can be found in Comrade Ed, the touching story of a wise, talking horse from the Great Patriotic War who teaches neighborhood children the virtues of informing on parents, saving scrap metal, and mixing a fine Molotov cocktail. The final episode of this miniseries is particularly moving, as the children wave goodbye to Ed as he is dragged off to the People's Glue Factory...
...year was 1956. On Nov. 4, 200,000 Soviet troops and hundreds of tanks stormed Hungary to crush a daring and bloody uprising, the most direct challenge to Moscow's postwar hegemony over Eastern Europe before or since. Suicide squads lobbed Molotov cocktails, paving stones and sticks at the invaders. Hungarian patriots, some as young as 13, were cut down in hails of automatic gunfire. Their bodies were added to piles of unburied corpses, dusted with lime, that littered the city. Soviet tanks blasted the facades off downtown buildings trying to stop sniper fire from upper windows. In scarcely more...
There seems little chance that police officers in any numbers would defect to the antigovernment side. Although nearly half the South African police are nonwhite, black activists consider them sell-outs to the apartheid system. They have been the primary target of Molotov cocktails and flaming tire "necklaces" in the townships. The army of 76,000 on active duty and 140,000 ready reservists is almost entirely white...
...Molotov, 96, served as Foreign Minister during and after Stalin's regime but was ousted from power by Nikita Khrushchev in 1957. Molotov was interviewed by Moscow News, a weekly paper. The article skirted political issues, merely presenting a personality profile on the friendly great grandfather. The paper, however, said Molotov approved of the loosening of limitations on editorial freedom that has accompanied Gorbachev's recent "openness" campaign...