Vyacheslav Molotov was a member and an organizer of the Bolshevik party. He was arrested twice for his revolutionary activities. The Bolsheviks then got more power and he became a member and secretary of the Central Committee in 1921. After the death of Lenin in 1924, Molotov supported Stalin. Stalin promoted him to full membership in the Politburo in 1926. He then became the prime minister of the Soviet Union in 1930-41. He was well known for sentencing thousands of people to exile or death. He believed that “reprisals were necessary for overcoming opponents of Soviet power.” Stalin then picked Molotov to replace Maksim Litvinov as the Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs. He also negotiated the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact with Nazi Germany. He had been told by Stalin to adjust the relationship between Germany and the Soviet Union. Then Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. He told the people of the Soviet Union “The enemy will be defeated. The victory will be ours.” He signed a treaty with English Ambassador, Richard Cripps that joined their actions in the war against Germany. During World War II, Molotov made special bottles that contained ignition agents that were used against tank attacks. They were named “Molotov’s cocktail.” During, and after the war, Molotov was the Soviet spokesman at the Allied Conferences. They were at Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam, and San Francisco, which created the United Nations. He was foreign minister in 1953 but he was dismissed because of his disagreements with Nikita Khrushchev. He joined the “antiparty group” that tired but did not succeed in getting rid of Khrushchev in 1957. He lost all his high party and state offices because of that. He was then appointed ambassador of Mongolia and left the Soviet Union. When he returned to Moscow he was expelled from the Communist Party after “engaging in more criticisms of Khrushchev in 1962. He died at age 96 on November 7
th, 1986.
Vyacheslav Molotov was a member and an organizer of the Bolshevik party. He was arrested twice for his revolutionary activities. The Bolsheviks then got more power and he became a member and secretary of the Central Committee in 1921. After the death of Lenin in 1924, Molotov supported Stalin. Stalin promoted him to full membership in the Politburo in 1926. He then became the prime minister of the Soviet Union in 1930-41. He was well known for sentencing thousands of people to exile or death. He believed that “reprisals were necessary for overcoming opponents of Soviet power.” Stalin then picked Molotov to replace Maksim Litvinov as the Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs. He also negotiated the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact with Nazi Germany. He had been told by Stalin to adjust the relationship between Germany and the Soviet Union. Then Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. He told the people of the Soviet Union “The enemy will be defeated. The victory will be ours.” He signed a treaty with English Ambassador, Richard Cripps that joined their actions in the war against Germany. During World War II, Molotov made special bottles that contained ignition agents that were used against tank attacks. They were named “Molotov’s cocktail.” During, and after the war, Molotov was the Soviet spokesman at the Allied Conferences. They were at Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam, and San Francisco, which created the United Nations. He was foreign minister in 1953 but he was dismissed because of his disagreements with Nikita Khrushchev. He joined the “antiparty group” that tired but did not succeed in getting rid of Khrushchev in 1957. He lost all his high party and state offices because of that. He was then appointed ambassador of Mongolia and left the Soviet Union. When he returned to Moscow he was expelled from the Communist Party after “engaging in more criticisms of Khrushchev in 1962. He died at age 96 on November 7th, 1986.
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