A makeshift incendiary bomb consisting of a bottle of flammable liquid ( usually gasoline ) with a flaming rag attached is known as a " Molotov cocktail ".

A Finnish soldier with a Molotov cocktail in the Winter War.

The Molotov cocktail, also known as a petrol bomb, gasoline bomb, Molotov bomb, fire bottle, fire bomb, or simply Molotov, is a generic name used for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons.

The name " Molotov cocktail " was coined by the Finns during the Winter War.

A Molotov cocktail is a breakable glass bottle containing a flammable substance such as gasoline or a napalm-like mixture, with some motor oil added, and usually a source of ignition such as a burning cloth wick held in place by the bottle's stopper.

The " Molotov cocktail " was the Finns ' response – " a drink to go with the food ".

The original design of the Molotov cocktail produced by the Finnish alcohol monopoly Alko during the Winter War of 1939 – 40.

The fuel for the Molotov cocktail was refined to a slightly sticky mixture of gasoline, kerosene, tar, and potassium chlorate.

The original design of the Molotov cocktail was a mixture of ethanol, tar and gasoline in a bottle.

A display of improvised munitions, including a Molotov cocktail, from the Warsaw Uprising, 1944.

A bursting Molotov cocktail.

A Molotov cocktail thrown through an open hatch into the crew spaces would, like most other grenades, seriously affect the crew and equipment.

Other references include the various usages of the Molotov cocktail to infer the imbibing or ' accepting ' of the Molotov socialist propagation and socialist border-lining on anarchy Ideology.

For example, in the movie The Wave the Molotov cocktail is referenced numerous times in a ' slang-like ' fashion with innuendo as to one who would drink a Molotov cocktail would also be an advocate of Molotovian philosophies.

* A detailed technology of the Molotov cocktail

* History of the Molotov cocktail

* A Thousand Lakes of Red Blood on White Snow, a brief history of the subarctic origins of the Molotov cocktail in the Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939 – 40

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:" I said to him very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting.

The dispute between Ordzhonikidze and Molotov, who represented the Soviet leadership, was settled by the establishment of a Congress Commission, which consisted of Stalin, Molotov, Ordzhonikidze, other Politburo members and certain economic experts.

Molotov was sent as Ambassador to Mongolian People's Republic ; the others were sent to head industrial facilities and institutes far from Moscow.

During the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact negotiations, Ribbentrop was overjoyed by a report from his Ambassador in Moscow, Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, of a speech by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin before the 18th Party Congress in March 1939 that was strongly anti-Western, which Schulenburg reported meant that the Soviet Union might be seeking an accord with Germany.

Ribbentrop had only expected to see the Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov, and was most surprised to be holding talks with Joseph Stalin.

On 27 September 1939, Ribbentrop made a second visit to Moscow, where at meetings with the Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov and Joseph Stalin, he was forced to agree to revising the Secret Protocols of the Non-Aggression Pact in the Soviet Union's favour, most notably agreeing to Stalin's demand that Lithuania go to the Soviet Union.

Molotov was open to the idea of the Soviet Union entering the war on the Axis side, but demanded as the price of Soviet entry into the war that Finland, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Hungary and Yugoslavia be recognised as in the exclusive Soviet sphere of influence.

It remained independent until the outset of World War II, when it was occupied by the Soviet Union under the terms of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact.

He was briefly a part of the ruling " troika " with Georgy Malenkov and Vyacheslav Molotov.

In particular, attempts to initiate peace talks with Hitler in 1941 through the ambassador of Bulgaria were classified as treason ; no one mentioned that Beria was acting on the orders of Stalin and Molotov.

The Soviet Union's " alternative " to the Marshall plan, which was purported to involve Soviet subsidies and trade with western Europe, became known as the Molotov Plan, and later, the COMECON.

The name is an insulting reference to Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who was responsible for the partition of Finland.

The Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union, also known as the Nazi – Soviet Pact and the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ( after its chief architects, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop ) was a non-aggression pact, signed in Moscow in the late hours of 23 August 1939, at the height of the Nomonhan fighting in the far east between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan.

In May, Stalin replaced his Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov, who was regarded as pro-western and who was also Jewish, with Vyacheslav Molotov, allowing the Soviet Union more latitude in discussions with more parties, not only with Britain and France.

The Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact was received with shock by Nazi Germany ’ s allies, notably Japan, by the Comintern and foreign communist parties, and by Jewish communities all around the world.

Eleven days after the Soviet invasion of the polish Kresy, the secret protocol of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact was modified by the German – Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation ,) allotting Germany a larger part of Poland and transferring Lithuania's territory ( with the exception of left bank of river Scheschupe, the " Lithuanian Strip ") from the envisioned German sphere to the Soviets.

On 8 October 1939, a new Nazi-Soviet agreement was reached by an exchange of letters between Vyacheslav Molotov and the German Ambassador.

Despite a warming by the Comintern, German tensions were raised when the Soviets stated in September that they must enter Poland to " protect " their ethnic Ukrainian and Belorussian brethren therein from Germany, though Molotov later admitted to German officials that this excuse was necessary because the Soviets could find no other pretext for the Soviet invasion.

Instead, the War Office issued instructions on how to make Molotov cocktails and emergency orders were placed for First World War vintage Ross rifles from Canada and Pattern 14 and M1917 rifles from the United States.

They also placed explosive weapons such as a Molotov cocktail, tear gas bomb, and M72 LAW rocket.

In 1940, Yeryomenko was placed in command of the 6th Cavalry Corps, which was responsible for invading Eastern Poland following the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact.

One cannot but wonder whether these doubts about the success of Khrushchev's agricultural policy have not at least something to do with one of the big surprises provided by this Congress -- the obsessive harping on the crimes and misdeeds of the `` anti-party group '' -- Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich and others -- including the eighty-year-old Marshal Voroshilov.

The effect of Chou En-lai's clash with Khrushchev, together with the everlasting attacks on Molotov & Co., has shifted the whole attention of the world, including that of the Soviet people, from the `` epoch-making '' twenty-year program to the present Soviet-Chinese conflict.

After a failed attempt to sign an anti-German military alliance with France and Britain and talks with Germany regarding a potential political deal, on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, negotiated by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.

Stalin and Molotov on the signing of the Soviet – Japanese Neutrality Pact with the Empire of Japan, 1941

The signing of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact on 23 August 1939 not only won Germany an informal alliance with the Soviet Union, but also neutralized Anglo-French attempts to win Turkey to the “ peace front ”.

After Molotov left Berlin, the Soviet Union indicated that it wished to sign the Tripartite Pact and enter the war on the Axis side.

" The drivers were proved right, trials on modern British tanks confirmed that Molotov and SIP grenades caused the occupants of the tanks " no inconvenience whatsoever ".

On 24 August, Pravda and Izvestia carried news of the non-secret portions of the Pact, complete with the now infamous front-page picture of Molotov signing the treaty, with a smiling Stalin looking on ( located at the top of this article ).

During the fifth session of the Supreme Soviet on 31 October 1939 Molotov analysed the international situation thus giving the direction for Communist propaganda.

Molotov declared in his report entitled " On the Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union " ( 31 October 1939 ) held on the fifth ( extraordinary ) session of the Supreme Soviet, that the Western " ruling circles " disguise their intentions with the pretext of defending democracy against Hitlerism, declaring " their aim in war with Germany is nothing more, nothing less than extermination of Hitlerism.

Nazi Germany terminated the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact with its invasion of the Soviet Union at 03: 15 on 22 June 1941.

" Carr argued that the Soviet Union's replacement of Foreign Minister Litvinov with Molotov on May 3, 1939 indicated not an irrevocable shift towards alignment with Germany, but rather was Stalin ’ s way of engaging in hard bargaining with the British and the French by appointing a proverbial hard man, namely Molotov, to the Foreign Commissariat.

In connection with the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact, an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe parliamentary resolution condemned both communism and fascism for starting World War II and called for a day of remembrance for victims of both Stalinism and Nazism on 23 August.

In accordance with the Soviet-Nazi Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact of 23 August 1939, the Red Army invaded Poland on 17 September 1939, after the Nazi invasion on 1 September 1939.

Evatt felt compelled to state on the floor of Parliament that he'd personally written to Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who assured him there were no Soviet spy rings in Australia.

When the Soviet Union invaded Poland on September 17, 1939, following the terms of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact's secret protocol, much of what had been eastern Poland was annexed to the BSSR.

Estonia had pursued a policy of neutrality, but it was of no consequence after the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact on August 23, 1939.

" Although the band virtually had no support by television or by radio broadcasting in its first four years, Korn would go on to influence Pleymo, Adema, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Slipknot, Evanescence, P. O. D., Cold, Staind, System of a Down, Seether, One Minute Silence, Kittie, Endo, Taproot, Disturbed, Crazy Town, Otep, Hoobastank, Suicide Silence, Emmure, Impending Doom, Five Pointe O, Lacuna Coil, Chris Volz, Videodrone, Theory of a Deadman, Thousand Foot Krutch, Avenged Sevenfold, Breaking Benjamin, Bleed the Sky, Papa Roach, Godsmack, Shinedown, Coal Chamber, Three Days Grace, Flymore, Bring Me the Horizon, Trapt, Molotov and other bands.