In 1939, Maxim Litvinov was removed as Soviet Foreign Minister and replaced by Vyacheslav Molotov.
To add to the theatre, the combatants wear masks and boast names such as Molotov or Latin Lover.
As it turned out, the potentially-explosive Diyarbakir gathering passed peacefully, with no tear gas, gunfire or Molotov cocktails.
Hitler's plan to attack Poland predates the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, so that deal, shameful though it was, did not provide the definitive go-ahead for the invasion.
Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister, took him under his wing.
Last year a court in Manisa found that a barber's shop had been set on fire not as the police first claimed by a Molotov cocktail but by a leaky gas cylinder.
Worse has been threatened: Raymond Villeneuve, the leader of the wildest anti-partitionists (and one who has been convicted of killing in his cause) has talked of a Molotov-cocktail campaign against zealous federalists.
Poland has voiced objections to this in the past, though Mr Sikorski now insists that he never likened it directly to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, a comparison the Germans find both hysterical and offensive.
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The man painting this picture stands 6 foot 4, has long arms flying out of an old cowboy leather vest, and curly hair fashioned in the student-Molotov-cocktail-thrower style last seen on Abby Hoffman in 1968.
Buford "Bucky" Rogers was arrested Friday after a search of his Montevideo, Minnesota, home turned up several explosives including Molotov cocktails and a suspected pipe bomb, according to the affidavit written by an FBI agent.
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