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Molotov cocktail (n.)
1940, a term from Russo-Finnish War (used and satirically named by the Finns), from
Molotov
(from Russian
molot
"hammer") name taken by Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skriabin (1890-1986), Soviet minister of foreign affairs 1939-1949.