Was Molotov as dumb as Lenin said he was?

>>2852967
No. He was actually one of the few people to intimidate Hitler when they had their conversations.

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>>2852995
According to Henry Kissinger, Molotov was more frightened of Stalin than he was of Hitler.

>>2853005
Well yeah, Stalin was his boss with unlimited power over life and death, Hitler was just some autistic german manlet.

He was publicity goon

>The name "Molotov cocktail" was coined by the Finns during the Winter War.[1] The name was an insulting reference to Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who was one of the architects of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact signed in late August 1939. The pact with Nazi Germany was widely mocked by the Finns, as was much of the propaganda Molotov produced to accompany the pact, including his declaration on Soviet state radio that bombing missions over Finland were actually airborne humanitarian food deliveries for their starving neighbours. The Finns sarcastically dubbed the Soviet cluster bombs "Molotov bread baskets" in reference to Molotov's propaganda broadcasts.[2] When the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack Soviet tanks, the Finns called it the "Molotov cocktail", as "a drink to go with the food".[3]

>lenin didn't like him
probably a cool guy

>>2853237
God tier banter desu
>>2853005
He was scared shitless of him personally. Stalin even deported his wife and send her to gulag and he did literally nothing about it

Smarter because he escaped justice or communist purges and died an old man.

>>2852967
Churchill literally describes him as a soulless robot
> I have only met him on equal terms, in parleys where sometimes a strain of humour appeared, or at banquets where he genially proposed a long succession of conventional and meaningless toasts. I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot. And yet with all this there was an apparently reasonable and keenly-polished diplomatist. What he was to his inferiors I cannot tell.

>>2854157
>and send her to gulag
>Passed away in 1970
Huh, gulag either wasn't that scary. or maybe it's fate worse than death.

>>2854157
She wasnt, you talk about Ekaterina Kalinina.