{"id":15153,"date":"2022-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/?p=15153&preview=true&preview_id=15153"},"modified":"2022-05-16T10:28:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T08:28:52","slug":"did-molotov-create-the-molotov-cocktail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/2022\/05\/05\/did-molotov-create-the-molotov-cocktail\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Molotov create the Molotov cocktail?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Q&A<\/span><\/h4>\n\n

Did Molotov create the Molotov cocktail?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
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BOTTLING IT ALL UP <\/strong>A Molotov cocktail \u2018factory\u2019 during WWII. Despite the weapon\u2019s name, it was not invented by Vyacheslav Molotov himself<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\u2022 <\/span>SHORT ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

First used in Spain, this explosive cocktail was an unwanted tipple for the Soviet foreign minister<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

\u2022 <\/span>LONG ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n
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Vyacheslav Molotov was Joseph <\/span>Stalin\u2019s right-hand man: an old Bolshevik and foreign minister. But while the simple-to-make incendiary device \u2013a glass bottle filled with a flammable liquid with a cloth wick sticking out the neck \u2013 bears his name, he was neither its inventor nor ordered its use.<\/p>\n\n

Such petrol bombs appeared during the Spanish Civil War in 1936, when Nationalist forces realised that filling small containers with something explosive and hurling them towards the enemy made for an effective method of taking out the Republicans\u2019 tanks. The name came three years later in a different conflict: the Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland.<\/p>\n\n

Molotov had been key to a treaty with the Nazis, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that secretly divided Eastern Europe into German and Russian spheres of influence. This gave the Red Army the green light to invade Finland, and made Molotov somewhat disliked.<\/p>\n\n

Then when he claimed that the ensuing Soviet bombings were actually humanitarian aid drops, the Finns had found the focus of their outrage. They referred to the air raids as \u2018Molotov\u2019s picnic baskets\u2019. And what goes well with a picnic? A cocktail. Apparently, Molotov utterly hated the association.<\/p>\n\n

PICTURE CREDIT: ALAMY X2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q&A Did Molotov create the Molotov cocktail? \u2022 SHORT ANSWER First used in Spain, this explosive cocktail was an unwanted tipple for the Soviet foreign minister \u2022 LONG ANSWER Vyacheslav Molotov was Joseph Stalin\u2019s right-hand man: an old Bolshevik and foreign minister. 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