Vyacheslav Molotov facts for kids
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Vyacheslav Molotov
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| Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union |
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| In office 19 December 1930 – 6 May 1941 |
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| Preceded by | Alexei Rykov |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Stalin |
| First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union |
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| In office 16 August 1942 – 29 June 1957 |
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| Premier | Joseph Stalin Georgy Malenkov Nikolai Bulganin |
| Preceded by | Nikolai Voznesensky |
| Succeeded by | Nikolai Bulganin |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 3 May 1939 – 4 March 1949 |
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| Premier | Joseph Stalin |
| Preceded by | Maxim Litvinov |
| Succeeded by | Andrey Vyshinsky |
| In office 5 March 1953 – 1 June 1956 |
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| Premier | Georgy Malenkov Nikolai Bulganin |
| Preceded by | Andrey Vyshinsky |
| Succeeded by | Dmitri Shepilov |
| Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Acting |
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| In office April 1922 – December 1930 |
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| Preceded by | position established |
| Succeeded by | Lazar Kaganovich |
| Responsible Secretary of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) | |
| In office March 1921 – April 1922 |
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| Preceded by | Nikolay Krestinsky |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Stalin (as general secretary) |
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Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin
9 March 1890 Kukarka, Russian Empire |
| Died | 8 November 1986 (aged 96) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship | Soviet |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Spouse(s) | Polina Zhemchuzhina |
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Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (Russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Мо́лотов; March 9 [O.S. February 25] 1890 in Kukarka – November 8, 1986 in Moscow) was a Soviet politician and diplomat. He was a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he came to power. He was a protégé of Joseph Stalin, until the 1950s. Nikita Khrushchev dismissed him from office. He was the main Soviet signatory of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 1939. This pact was signed between Germany and the USSR, and it was a promise not to attack each other. The pact lasted about two years, until Germany started the invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. The Molotov Cocktail, which was invented by Finns fighting against the Soviet invasion of Finland, is named after him.
| Preceded by Alexey Rykov |
Prime Minister of the Soviet Union 1930–1941 |
Succeeded by Joseph Stalin |
Images for kids
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Molotov in 1917
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Molotov and the OGPU's first chief Felix Dzerzhinsky, 1924
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Molotov speaks at the meeting of peasant women, 1925
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Kliment Voroshilov, Lazar Kaganovich, Alexander Kosarev and Vyacheslav Molotov at the 7th Conference of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (Komsomol). July 1932.
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A list from the Great Purge signed by Molotov, Stalin, Voroshilov, Kaganovich and Zhdanov
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Molotov meets with Joachim von Ribbentrop before signing the German–Soviet non-aggression pact
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Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference in 1943; Molotov and Anthony Eden are standing in the background.
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Stalin, Harry S. Truman, Andrei Gromyko, James F. Byrnes and Molotov meeting at the Potsdam Conference on 18 July 1945
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Molotov with his wife Polina in 1960
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Potsdam Conference: Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Molotov, Joseph Stalin, William Daniel Leahy, James F. Byrnes, Harry S. Truman and others.
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Molotov with French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay at the Geneva Summit of 1955
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Vyacheslav Molotov on the cover of Time, 20 April 1953
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Molotov's birth house in Sovetsk, Kirov Oblast.
