'''Vyacheslav Molotov''' was the foreign minister of the former [[Soviet Union]] from 1939 to 1956 and one of the architects of the [[Molotov-Ribbentrop pact]]. The [[Molotov Cocktail]], an improvised petrol bomb widely used by [[Finland|Finnish]] troops against tanks while resisting Soviet aggression in the [[Winter War]] of 1939-1940, is named for him. | '''Vyacheslav Molotov''' was the foreign minister of the former [[Soviet Union]] from 1939 to 1956 and one of the architects of the [[Molotov-Ribbentrop pact]]. The [[Molotov Cocktail]], an improvised petrol bomb widely used by [[Finland|Finnish]] troops against tanks while resisting Soviet aggression in the [[Winter War]] of 1939-1940, is named for him. |