Soviet politician, statesman and diplomat (1890–1986)
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Stalin's longest-serving right hand, the diplomat who carved up Poland with the Nazis and gave his name to the firebomb. Molotov spent three decades at the centre of Soviet power — premier through famine and purge, foreign minister through pact and Cold War — then died in exile still defending the system that finally expelled him.
Molotov joined the Bolsheviks in 1906, endured arrest and internal exile twice, and rose through the party apparatus to back Stalin's consolidation in the 1920s. Made premier in 1930, he oversaw collectivisation and the famine it triggered, then the Great Purge that followed. Appointed Foreign Minister in 1939, he signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact that split Poland with Nazi Germany and swallowed the Baltics, then became Stalin's chief negotiator with the Allies through the war. After 1945 his standing crumbled; he lost his ministry in 1948 and faced public criticism at the 1952 Party Congres…
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[W]e've done so much that even if we are smashed, everything will have been worth it. If not today, then tomorrow.
This is not the first time that our people have had to deal with an attack of an arrogant foe.
Only a fool would attack us.
Events arising out of the Polish-German War have revealed the internal insolvency and obvious impotence of the Polish state. Polish ruling circles have suffered bankruptcy....
Life has improved, and now as never before the doors to a happy and cultured life for all the peoples of our Union stand wide open.
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