...Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (, Vjačeslav Michajlovič Molotov; – 8 November, 1986) was a Soviet politician and diplomat, a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from Presidium (Politburo) of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev. He was a major perpetrator of the Great Terror and the principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 (also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) as well as post-war negotiations. The Molotov cocktail was named after him by the Finnish military during the Winter War. Read full entry

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