Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Molotov is statesman and diplomat who was foreign minister and the major spokesman for the Soviet Union at Allied conferences during and immediately after World War II.
In 1930 he was made chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. The post he held until 1941.
Molotov arranged the Soviet alliances with Great Britain and the United States and attended the Allies' conferences at Tehrān (1943), Yalta (1945), and Potsdam (1945) as well as the San Francisco Conference (1945), which created the United Nations ... (It was during World War II that Molotov ordered the production of the bottles of inflammable liquid that became known as Molotov cocktails.) In his wartime dealings with the Allies and afterward, he earned a reputation for uncompromising hostility to the West.
In 1930 he was made chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. The post he held until 1941.
Molotov arranged the Soviet alliances with Great Britain and the United States and attended the Allies' conferences at Tehrān (1943), Yalta (1945), and Potsdam (1945) as well as the San Francisco Conference (1945), which created the United Nations ... (It was during World War II that Molotov ordered the production of the bottles of inflammable liquid that became known as Molotov cocktails.) In his wartime dealings with the Allies and afterward, he earned a reputation for uncompromising hostility to the West.
In March 1949 Molotov gave up the post of foreign minister, but, after Stalin died (March 1953), he resumed it, holding it until his political disagreements with Nikita Khrushchev resulted in his dismissal (June 1956). He was made minister of state control in November, but, when he joined the “antiparty group” that unsuccessfully tried to depose Khrushchev in June 1957, he lost all his high party and state offices. He subsequently served as ambassador to Mongolia and as the Soviet delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna (1960–61). In 1962, after engaging in more criticisms of Khrushchev, he was expelled from the Communist Party. He lived thereafter in undisturbed retirement in Moscow.
