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Molotov: Molotov Cocktail
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Due to soaring price of oil these days the most common use of Molotov cocktail is for celebrities to preserve their pets. It was ... successfully pioneered in the Eighties for embalming of famous statesmen. Lenin Mausoleum is in fact a giant aquarium filled with Molotov cocktail. Because of inherent instability of the Molotov cocktail the body has to be taken twice a week to an aquatic city beneath the Mausoleum to be undressed and immersed in stem cells extracted out of dead mafia bosses.
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Molotov cocktail, mockingly named after Vyacheslav Molotov is the generic name for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons... known as the [P]etrol bomb, gasoline bomb, or Molotov bomb. They are commonly associated with guerrilla forces and rioters, since they are often the only effective weapons available where other conventional weapons are restricted or banned, and are easily assembled from components commonly available even in highly restrictive states.
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A Molotov cocktail consists of a glass bottle partly filled with flammable liquid, typically gasoline, alcohol, methanol or ethanol. The mouth of the bottle is closed with a cork or other type of tight sealing made of rubber, glass, or plastic, and a cloth rag is fixed securely around the mouth. The weapon is used by first soaking the rag in a flammable liquid immediately prior to using it, lighting the rag, and throwing the bottle at the target. The bottle breaks when it lands, spilling the flammable liquid over the target, which is then ignited by the burning rag.
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The original Molotov cocktail produced by the Finnish alcohol monopoly ALKO. The bottle has storm matches instead of a rag for a fuse. Such devices were used in the Winter War, 1939-1940
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In 1939, Molotov was ... named Foreign Minister and negotiated a peace agreement with Germany. But to prepare for a possible war, the Soviet Union invaded Finland to add territory between Russia and Germany. The Red Army was met with resistance, including a new and simple weapon made from bottles filled with fuel and thrown like a grenade. They were soon nicknamed "Molotov Cocktails."
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Originally invented by a frenchman, the elusive recipe for the Molotov cocktail was later stolen by a street urchin from the Soviet Union (when it was still the Soviet Union) and smuggled back across (several) borders. Upon returning to the USSR, the beggar traded his secret for a loaf of rye bread. The bartender, a man by the name of "Hairy Jim Vladovich", sat down to mix the drink. Halfway through the process... he was distracted by a loud noise in the backroom. While he went to check on it a wounded soldier stumbled in, grabbed the drink, and downed it to ease the pain. By the time Hairy Jim came back the soldier had spontainiously combusted.
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