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Vyacheslav Molotov Timeline
25 Feb 1890 | Vyacheslav Molotov was born. |
3 May 1939 | Molotov replaced Litvinov as the Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union. |
31 May 1939 | Vyacheslav Molotov gave his first speech as the Soviet foreign minister before the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union. He called for the Soviet Union to guarantee the borders of neighboring countries in Eastern Europe as means to contain German aggression, but at the same time, friendly relations should be maintained with Germany and Italy as commercial agreements with them were still of interest to the Soviet Union. |
24 Jul 1939 | Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov met with British and French representatives to work out a potential agreement against Germany; the plan Molotov proposed was similar to the 1914 alliance in an attempt to contain the German Empire. |
31 Oct 1939 | Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, gloated over the dissolution of Poland, "ugly offspring of the Versailles Treaty", by the combined Soviet-German attack. He also accused the British of aggressive acts. |
29 Mar 1940 | Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov declared the Soviet Union neutral in the on-going European War. |
17 Jun 1940 | Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov sent German Ambassador Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg a message of congratulations for the successful German conquest of France. |
13 Jul 1940 | Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov leaked diplomatic communications between Britain and the Soviet Union, which should had been held confidentially between the two countries per general rules of international diplomacy, to Germany. |