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Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary. He was one of Joseph Stalin's closest allies and one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet government during his rule. In addition to serving as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars from 1930 to 1941, he held office as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 and again from 1953 to 1956. His…
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politics · Soviet politician and diplomat (1890–1986) · politician · diplomat · also Vyacheslav Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Vyacheslav Mixaylovich Molotov, Molotov
Born 25 February 1890 · Died 8 November 1986 · Q132899
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One should listen to them, but it is necessary to check up on them. The intelligence officer can lead you to a very dangerous position.... There are many provocateurs here, there, and everywhere.
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“What then has made Stalin collaborate so closely with him? There are many more talented people in the Soviet Union and Stalin no doubt had the means to find them. Is he afraid of close collaboration with a more human and sympathetic assistant?”
“One should listen to them, but it is necessary to check up on them. The intelligence officer can lead you to a very dangerous position.... There are many provocateurs here, there, and everywhere.”
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“treat the kulak (land-owning peasants) as the most cunning and still undefeated enemy.”
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To find Molotov, and Kaganovich, guilty of genocide against the Ukrainian people
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By Felix Chuev as Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics
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Died 1986-11-08.
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“I do not believe that everything we did under Stalin was right. But the main thing we achieved gives us justifiable pride. Had we been conquered, we would have had to wait a long time for liberation.”
“There is no alternative to class struggle.”
“Our scientists all the more occupy advanced positions in the development of world science. By the example of their successes in the field of atomic energy, our scientists and technicians have vividly shown how much the increased might of the Soviet state and the further growth of its international authority depends on their efforts and practical successes.”
“As long as we live in a system of states, and as long as the roots of fascism and imperialist aggression have not finally been extirpated, our vigilance in regard to possible new violators of peace should not slacken, and concern for the strengthening of cooperation between the peace-loving powers will continue to be our most important duty.”
“Stalin will be rehabilitated, needless to say.”
“Infallible people do not exist, Lenin used to say. It depends, first, on the kind of error and, second, how long it persisted. And whether there was willingness to pursue the line considered correct. If there was such willingness, certain errors had to be passed over.”
“In capitalist countries the bourgeoisie leads. So long as imperialism and socialism are locked in struggle with each other, it's either a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie or a dictatorship of the working class.”
“Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”
Molotov was even allowed to seek membership in the Communist Party
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And 1974, but eventually disappeared altogether by the mid-to-late-1970s
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“In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin”
United Press International reported that Molotov had completed his memoirs but that they would likely never be published
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All of Molotov's party documents and files were destroyed by the authorities
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During which Khrushchev carried out his de-Stalinisation campaign, including the removal of Stalin's body from Lenin's Mausoleum, Molotov, along with Lazar Kaganovich, was removed from all positions and expelled from the
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Was appointed Soviet representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which was seen as a partial rehabilitation
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Career landmark: Soviet Union Ambassador to Mongolia (1957–1960).
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Khrushchev told delegates that Stalin had plans for "finishing off" Molotov and Mikoyan in the aftermath of the 19th Congress
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Career landmark: deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1954–1958).
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Stated in his book Crisis in the Kremlin:
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Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs of USSR (1953–1956).
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Molotov was elected to the replacement for the Politburo, the Presidium, but was not listed among the members of the newly established secret body known as the Bureau of the Presidium, which indicated that he had fallen
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1950).
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Career landmark: deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1950–1954).
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Molotov was replaced as Foreign Minister by Andrey Vyshinsky but retained his position as First Deputy Premier and membership in the Politburo
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“In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow”
Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs of USSR (1946–1949).
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Career landmark: First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1946–1957).
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Career landmark: deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1946–1950).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1945).
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Began to lose favour, losing his ministership in 1948 before being criticised by Stalin at the 19th Party Congress in 1952
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“For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”
“For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”
Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1943).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1943).
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The Yalta Conference in 1945, and, after the defeat of Germany, the Potsdam Conference
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Stalin took Molotov to task for his handling of the negotiations with the Allies
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Career landmark: First Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1942–1946).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1940).
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Career landmark: People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (1939–1946).
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Signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact which led to the Soviet Union's joint occupation of Poland alongside Nazi Germany and its ensuing annexation of the Baltic states
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Adolf Hitler's invasion of the rest of Czechoslovakia, in violation of the 1938 Munich Agreement, made Stalin believe that Britain and France, which had signed the agreement, would not be reliable allies against German e
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Career landmark: deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1938–1946).
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Alone, 20 out of 28 People's Commissars in Molotov's Government were executed
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Fearing arrest, Arosev tried three times to ring Molotov, who refused to speak to him
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Trotsky, in exile, noted that when lists of party leaders appeared in Soviet press reports, Molotov's name sometimes appeared as low as fourth in the list "and he was often deprived of his initials", and that when he was
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And even visited Berlin that year, Germany had not then reoccupied the Rhineland
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“We have never refuted the fact that healthy prisoners capable of normal labour are used for road building and other public works. This is good for society; it is also good for the peasants themselves.”
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Career landmark: Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1930–1941).
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Molotov replaced Nikolai Uglanov as First Secretary of the Moscow Communist Party and held that position until 15 August 1929
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And became premier in 1930, overseeing Stalin's agricultural collectivisation (and resulting famine) and his Great Purge
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Career landmark: Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1926–1957).
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Molotov remained a loyal supporter of Stalin against his various rivals: first Leon Trotsky, later Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, and finally Nikolai Bukharin
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Stalin became General Secretary of the Bolshevik Party with Molotov as the de facto Second Secretary
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And held the office of Responsible Secretary
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Elevated him to full membership of the Central Committee and Orgburo, and put him in charge of the party secretariat
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Career landmark: Candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1921–1926).
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Career landmark: First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1920–1921).
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Molotov was sent to Ukraine to take part in the Russian Civil War, which had broken out
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Was one of the few Bolsheviks of any standing in the capital
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Escaped from his Siberian exile and returned to the capital city, which had been renamed Petrograd by the Tsarist regime – it being thought that the old name sounded too German
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Studied at Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute (1911–1916).
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And soon gravitated toward the organisation's radical Bolshevik faction, which was led by Vladimir Lenin
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And was arrested and internally exiled twice before the October Revolution of 1917
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“We also had a defeat in 1905 but we triumphed in 1917. We wouldn't have won in 1917 if it hadn't been for 1905. This should be taken into consideration. This should be understood. Some say, give us victory now! If not, it's no good. Tea drinkers. They want everything handed to them in a tea saucer.”
Born 1890-02-25.
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