Once Stalin approves of a policy, it is announced in Foreign Commissar Molotov’s dull, stammering monotone. Nicolai Lenin, his good friend, described Molotov as “Russia’s best filing clerk.” ...
For some years the Soviet hierarchy has been: Stalin, No. i; Molotov, No. 2; Beria, No. 3. Malenkov was rated No. 2½, between Molotov and Beria. Now, the experts who study the Russian tea leaves ...
The Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, signed just before the invasion ... Joachim von Ribbentrop aimed to coordinate a conference with ...
Players: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and their advisers, including Anthony Eden and Molotov; US ambassadors and military officials. Outcome: Decisions ...
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will ...
The agreement was signed with immediate effect on 12 July 1941 by diplomats Sir Stafford Cripps and Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov ... but he was distrusted by Stalin, partly because he drank ...