Word: vyacheslav
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...chosen to lull the rest of the world, to relax the external pressure in the cold war by seeming to give much and actually giving little, is an old and skilled hand at the game. He is Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Foreign Minister of Russia and Communism's Old Reliable-who has been a member of the Politburo longer than anyone else (32 years...
...rest of the world's diplomats heartily dislike and healthily respect Vyacheslav Molotov. Alone of the top men in the Kremlin, he is familiar with lands and peoples beyond the control of the Red army. He alone has had to match the rigidities of Communist dogma with the realities of the undogmatic world outside. He has been the principal foreign agent of Communism since 1939. Most of the twists and somersaults of Soviet foreign policy have been his handiwork-in execution, and often in conception. But not necessarily in the basic decisions: Molotov is a born...
...post, Molotov sent his chief of protocol to the airport to shake his hand. The same day he talked for 49 minutes with the British ambassador, and asked after Foreign Secretary Eden's gallbladder complaint. With such small gestures, and vague hints of bigger ones to come, did Vyacheslav Molotov peddle his latest bill of goods marked "Peace...
...with Soft Hands. Molotov was born Vyacheslav Skriabin, son of a Great Russian retail clerk who worked in a dry-goods store in the village of Kukarka (now Sovietsk). Papa Skriabin, though far from wealthy, owned a roomy frame house; his children went to high school and learned the violin, which Molotov is said to have played badly but with soul. Molotov has claimed the composer Skriabin as an uncle, but Skriabin's family does not reciprocate...
...wealthy liberal, put up 100,000 rubles to found a revolutionary journal to be called Pravda (Truth). Molotov was appointed secretary; his editor was a mustachioed Georgian, eleven years his senior, named Joseph Djugashvili (alias Stalin). The two pledged "eternal alliance," and Stalin took room and board with Vyacheslav's widowed aunt...