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Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (Russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Мо́лотов; 9 March [O.S. 25 February] 1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from the Presidium (Politburo) of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev. He served as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (Premier) from 1930 to 1941, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1956. Molotov served for several years as First Deputy Premier in Joseph Stalin's cabinet. He retired in 1961 after several years of obscurity.
Molotov was the principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 (also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), after Britain and France repeatedly failed to join the Soviets in an anti-Nazi alliance, was involved in post-war negotiations where he became noted for his diplomatic skills, and knew of the Katyn massacre committed by the Soviet authorities. Following the aftermath of World War II (Great Patriotic War) Molotov kept his place, until 1949, as a leading Soviet diplomat and politician. In March 1949, after losing Stalin's favour, he lost the foreign affairs ministry to Andrei Vyshinsky. Molotov's relationship with Stalin deteriorated further, with Stalin complaining about Molotov's mistakes in a speech to the 19th Party Congress. However, after Stalin's death in 1953 Molotov was staunchly opposed to Khrushchev's de-Stalinisation policy. He defended his policies and the legacy of Stalin until his death in 1986, and harshly criticized Stalin's successors, especially Nikita Khrushchev.
Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ( listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is commonly associated with the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust.
A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the German Workers' Party, precursor of the Nazi Party, in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup d'état, known as the Beer Hall Putsch, in Munich. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism, and anticommunism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. After his appointment as chancellor in 1933, he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. His aim was to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин; born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Джугашвили; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 and later held the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. While the office of the General Secretary was officially elective and not initially regarded as the top position in the Soviet state, Stalin managed to use it to consolidate more and more power in his hands after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924 and gradually put down all opposition groups within the Communist Party. This included Leon Trotsky, a socialist theorist and the principal critic of Stalin among the early Soviet leaders, who was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929. Whereas Trotsky was an exponent of permanent revolution, it was Stalin's concept of socialism in one country that became the primary focus of Soviet politics.
Vyacheslav Molotov Announces the German Attack June 1941
Vyacheslav Molotov in Germany meeting with Adolf Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop November 1940
No No Says Molotov (1946)
Molotov's fall from grace - Timewatch: Who Killed Stalin - BBC
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Soviet Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov boards an aircraft at the Washington D.C. air...HD Stock Footage
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Vyacheslav Molotov, Foreign Minister sits in his office, Soviet Russia HD Stock Footage
Vyacheslav Molotov and Mikhail Kalinin
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Ernest Bevin, James Byrnes, Vyacheslav Molotov and their staffs at Potsdam Confer...HD Stock Footage
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov in Li...HD Stock Footage
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Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov
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Genres: Drama, History, War,Actors: Horst Schulze (actor), Sergey Nikonenko (actor), Boris Nevzorov (actor), Gerd Michael Henneberg (actor), Nikolay Kryuchkov (actor), Günter Junghans (actor), Fedor Bondarchuk (actor), Ronald Lacey (actor), Sergey Garmash (actor), Fernando Allende (actor), Powers Boothe (actor), Artyom Karapetyan (actor), Carl Heinz Choynski (actor), Mikhail Ulyanov (actor), Andrey Smolyakov (actor),
Plot: A sequel of "Bitva za Moskvu" (1985). The film is set in the Russian city of Stalingrad on the river Volga in 1942-1943. The Nazi Armies are over one million strong, when they reach Volga at Stalingrad, where the WWII pivotal battle is unfolding. The battle becomes the biggest military event in the history of WWII. Despite the immeasurable human losses on both sides, the battle is going on for many months, fueled by the draft and military propaganda from the leaders. After having the big city totally destroyed, the invading Nazi Armies are defeated and reduced to one hundred thousand POWs. The battle is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both German and Russian sides of the war.
Keywords: battle, death, ruins, stalingrad, world-war-twoActors: Ivo Garrani (actor), Yuriy Nazarov (actor), Anatoliy Kuznetsov (actor), Artyom Karapetyan (actor), Mikhail Gluzskiy (actor), Mikhail Kokshenov (actor), Leonid Kuravlyov (actor), Vladimir Kashpur (actor), Yuriy Dubrovin (actor), Hannjo Hasse (actor), Jan Englert (actor), Gerd Michael Henneberg (actor), Georgiy Burkov (actor), Valeriy Nosik (actor), Sergey Nikonenko (actor),
Plot: This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two.Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign(the Battle of Kursk,the Lower Dnieper Offensive,Operation Bagration,the Vistula-Oder Offensive and the Battle of Berlin)
Keywords: 1940s, air-force, artillery, barbed-wire, counter-offensive, defeat, epic, german-general, great-patriotic-war, hitler