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...high schools, and author of proclamations that clamored for class revolt. By the time he was 27, Papa Skriabin's boy had been jailed six times, exiled twice. His name was so well known to the Okhrana, the Czarist secret police, that he changed it to Akim Prostota, which means roughly "Simple Sam." But the comrades called, him Molotov-a derivative of molot, a hammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Old Reliable | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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