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    Vyacheslav Molotov

    Soviet politician, statesman and diplomat

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  1. Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov [c] ( né Skryabin; [d] 9 March [ O. S. 25 February] 1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary who was a leading figure in the government of the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1950s, as one of Joseph Stalin 's closest allies. Molotov served as Chairman of the Council of ...

  2. Vyacheslav Molotov (born February 25 [March 9, New Style], 1890, Kukarka [now Sovetsk], Russia—died November 8, 1986, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a statesman and diplomat who served as foreign minister and the major spokesman for the Soviet Union at Allied conferences during and immediately after World War II.

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  3. May 17, 2018 · The Soviet statesman Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (1890-1986) was second in command during Stalin's regime and served as the chief Soviet diplomat in World War II. Vyacheslav Molotov was born on March 9, 1890, in the village of Kukarka (now Sovetsk) in what is now the Kirov Oblast. His family name was Scriabin, and he was distantly related ...

  4. Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov Russian: Вячеслав Михайлович Молотов, Russian pronunciation: [vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ˈmolətəf] (né Skryabin; Russian: Скрябин) (March 9 [O. S. February 25] 1890 – November 8, 1986) was a Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik, and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s onward.

    • Vyacheslav Molotov’s Path from a Remote Village to the Politburo. Born to a merchant family, young Vyacheslav Molotov was described as shy and quiet. He graduated from a secondary school in Kazan, Russia, where he became familiar with Marxist revolutionary ideas.
    • He was Joseph Stalin’s Trusted Confidant. Vyacheslav Molotov first met Joseph Stalin when he worked for Pravda, a newly established Bolshevik newspaper, where Stalin was the editor.
    • Molotov was a Key Architect of Stalin’s Terror Regime. Joseph Stalin appointed Vyacheslav Molotov as the Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissioners (Prime Minister of the Soviet Union) in 1930.
    • He was a Book-Lover Diplomat with “Cold-blooded Ruthlessness” Vyacheslav Molotov was appointed Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union in 1939. Even though he lacked the expertise and education common for a high-level diplomat, he proved to be a capable and powerful statesman during difficult and tense negotiations with more experienced foreign colleagues.
  5. Vyatka province, Russia. Died November 8, 1986. Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Soviet revolutionary, politician, and statesman. V yacheslav Molotov was the closest friend and loyal aide of Joseph Stalin (1879–1953; see entry) throughout Stalin's reign as leader of the Soviet Union. Won over to communism as a teenager, Molotov never strayed ...

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  7. By Blaine Taylor. The arrival of Vyacheslav M. Molotov, the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, in Berlin on a rainy November 12, 1940, was a solemn, strained occasion. Compared to the whirlwind visit of Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to Moscow on August 23, 1939, which resulted in the German-Soviet Non ...

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