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Vyacheslav Molotov
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Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov
(; ; – 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
. Molotov 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. He served as
First Deputy Premier
from 1942 to 1957, when he was dismissed from the Presidium of the Central Committee by
Nikita Khrushchev
. Molotov retired in 1961 after several years of obscurity.
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