When somebody, someday, opens a hall of fame dedicated to great moments in international diplomacy, the competition for space will be fierce. I'm sure there will be an exhibit on Vlad Tepes, the 15th- century Romanian prince who, when a visiting delegation of Turkish diplomats refused to take off their hats, had his men nail the hats to their heads. Then there's Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who stayed in the White House during secret World War II negotiations with Franklin Roosevelt. White House servants who unpacked his suitcase reported to the president that it was stuffed with bread, sausage and a pistol that Molotov kept under his pillow at night.
World War II pacts Details of three World War II-era agreements cited by President Bush in a speech Saturday in Riga, Latvia: * Munich Pact: Signed in September 1938 in Munich, Germany, and led to the division of Czechoslovakia after Great Britain and France agreed to Germanys request for certain territory in Czechoslovakia. Germany wanted territory in the Sudentenland region, where nearly 3 million residents of German ancestry significantly outnumbered the Czechs, in exchange for a promise to end its aggressive expansion across Europe. Britain and France agreed, viewing Germanys offer of a promise as an attempt to avoid war. But Germany violated the agreement, drawing Europe closer to the beginning of World War II. * Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: Signed in Moscow in August 1939 by Germany ...
....) For Stalin and his foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, the German invasion in 1941 confirmed the...
On Aug. 23, 1939, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov stunned the world by signing the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact under the watchful eyes of German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop and Soviet leader Josef Stalin. With the sweep of a pen Soviet Russia paved the way for the beginning of World War II by assuring Hitler he would not have to fight a war on two fronts. That error in judgment cost roughly 62 million people across the globe their lives; including 6 million Jews and 23 million Russians. Sixty-seven years later it seems that once again Russia has yielded to the destructive ambitions of a tyrant and an anti- Semite. By refusing to support tough sanctions on Iran over its dangerous nuclear enrichment program, Russia is once again exposing the world to unimaginabl...
Did Americans really know Barack Obama when they voted to make him their 44th president? Many of them had never heard of the man until he came forward to challenge Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. After the market dive in the midst of the fall campaign, a majority of voters chose the freshman U.S. senator over his colleague Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican and a war hero.
... with then- Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, indicating "a direct line to the Soviet C...
Russia is a fascinating place. The classic Russian novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky detail stories of love, lust, murder and revenge amid the backdrop of the frozen, unforgiving Russian landscape. Too often, when readers think about Russia they probably think they'll have to reread "War and Peace" or "Crime and Punishment" to find a great, sweeping Russian story. Right now, EVPL has several great books about Russia and her people for those die-hard Russophiles (like myself) out there.
... take on Russian history and culture, try Molotov's "Magic Lantern," written by Rachel Polonsky. Pol...'s elite -- including the notorious Vyacheslav Molotov (one of Stalin's henchmen). In Molotov's ...
...He wrote letters to Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin's confidant and protege. But it wa...
By the time Franklin D. Roosevelt died in April 1945, his grand vision of the world was rapidly slipping from his grasp. Once Nazi Germany was defeated, FDR hoped to leave Europe to Britain and the Soviet Union, but he had no answer to the question of just how Britain was supposed to single-handedly defend freedom on the Continent, overmatched as it clearly was. "Facing the question honestly might have forced him to contemplate a transformation in American foreign policy, which he deemed unacceptable," wrote the historian Wilson D. Miscamble. But, of course, that transformation would take place anyway, under Roosevelt's successor, Harry S. Truman. This period of transition, from the end of World War II to the drawing of the battle lines of the Cold War, is one of the most consequential ...
... Gatling gun." Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov received a dismissive dressing down from T...
...'s remarks on conquering Egypt, and Vyacheslav Molotov's giving Russia the word about Germany in ...
In the fortnight since Chuck Hagel's name was floated for secretary of Defense, we have witnessed Washington at its worst. Who is Chuck Hagel?
... talked to Joseph Stalin and read Vyacheslav Molotov the riot act in the Oval Office. Dwight Ei...
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