Molotov
Bottle-based incendiary weapon
Molotov refers to Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet foreign minister under Stalin, whose name appears in two historical terms.
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was the 1939 non-aggression treaty between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
A Molotov cocktail is a crude incendiary weapon—a bottle filled with flammable liquid with a wick, thrown to shatter and ignite on impact.
Finnish soldiers coined the mocking name during the 1939 Winter War, calling the improvised bombs "cocktails for Molotov" in response to Soviet propaganda.
Mixed alcoholic beverage
- firebombExplosive causing flames
- incendiaryCausing or designed for burning
- petrolMotor vehicle fuel
- ragWorn piece of fabric
bottle · gasoline · improvised · explosive · resistance · riot · uprising · guerrilla
Formal agreement between parties
- SovietOf the USSR
- FinlandScandinavian country, capital Helsinki
- Winter War1939 Soviet-Finnish armed conflict
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
foreign minister · Nazi · USSR · 1939 · treaty · diplomacy · nonaggression · annexation
cocktail
Mixed alcoholic beverage
- firebombExplosive causing flames
- incendiaryCausing or designed for burning
- petrolMotor vehicle fuel
rag · bottle · gasoline · improvised · explosive · resistance · riot · uprising · guerrilla · insurgent
pact
Formal agreement between parties
- SovietOf the USSR
- FinlandScandinavian country, capital Helsinki
- Winter War1939 Soviet-Finnish armed conflict
Stalin · foreign minister · Nazi · USSR · 1939 · treaty · diplomacy · nonaggression · annexation · Baltic
demonstration
Public display of opinion
- riotViolent public disturbance
- unrestState of public disturbance
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
rebellion · anarchist · street · barricade · clashes · police · civil · disobedience · resistance · revolutionary
- Soviet EraUSSR, Soviet Union, Soviet rule, CCCP, Eastern Bloc
- Famous MexicansBenito Juarez, Frida Kahlo, Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, Diego Rivera
- Latin RockSantana, Carlos Santana, Zoe, Virus, La Bamba
- Soviet LeadershipStalin, Lenin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev
- Stalin EraJoseph Stalin, Stalin, Stalinism, Stalingrad, Stalin era
- Counter-StrikeAK-47, CT, terrorist, bomb site, defuse
Molotovsmart bomb
Self-guided explosive weapon
cruise missile · guided missile · artillery shell · ballistic missile · laser-guided bomb
Molotovpeace treaty
Formal end to hostilities
diplomatic negotiation · nonviolent resistance · peaceful protest · olive branch · ceasefire
MolotovGorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev · Khrushchev · Nikita Khrushchev · Boris Yeltsin
- Molotov cocktailImprovised thrown incendiary device
- Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact1939 German-Soviet nonaggression treaty