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.” ...

These include Stalin’s deputy Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor), Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi), Vyacheslav Molotov (Michael Palin) and Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale), head of the ...

When important decrees are issued they are signed for the Party by Stalin and for the State by chubby but earnest and intense Premier Vyacheslav Michailovich Molotov (M in the cut). His real name ...

Piles of rubble were ubiquitous. In Moscow, they had meetings with Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin’s closest adviser, and with Stalin. It soon became apparent that the Soviets were determined to ...

On Monday she tweeted: "Dear President Putin, Hitler and Stalin colluded to start WWII ... von Ribbentrop and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov had signed a non-aggression pact on ...

Stalin used the same kind of language at about the same time. He called his opponents the “enemies of the people,” implying that they were not citizens and that they enjoyed no rights.

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 ...

Its name is tied to Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister during World War II, although he didn’t invent the weapon. The Molotov cocktail was popularized during the Winter War (1939 ...

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