Vyacheslav Molotov (HSE)



Vyacheslav Molotov was the 3rd and 5th Premier of the Soviet Union, serving from the death of Joseph Stalin to his own death in 1986. Originally Foreign Commisar, Stalin specifically willed Molotov to become Premier.

Molotov presided over many crucial events in the history of the Soviet Union. Molotov was the leader who declared war on Turkey after the U-2 incident, on China after the Sino-Soviet Split, and on Korea, Yugoslavia, and Albania during the Purge of the Revisionists, as he called it, and saw the USSR grow to half the world's area.

Molotov died in 1986, shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union's hated enemy, the United States of America. Molotov made sure that these Post-Union states would not oppose the USSR's dominant place in the world.