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Putin Is Right, This Is a Fight for the Survival of Russia
And the next city that needs to be liberated is Moscow by the Russian people
Have you ever wondered where the name “Molotov cocktail” comes from? It seems it was a name the people of Finland came up with during the Winter War with the Soviet Union in 1939–1940.
The Soviet Union invaded the much smaller neighbor to the north on November 30, 1939, and almost immediately the Soviet air force was dropping incendiary bombs on Helsinki.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who signed the infamous non-aggression pact Nazi Germany’s Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, told the Soviet people that no bombings of Helsinki had occurred rather humanitarian aid parcels were being dropped.
The good-natured Finns called those incendiary bombs “Molotov bread baskets.” When the defending Finns started to destroy Soviet attacks by throwing gas-filled bottles with flaming rags in them, they jokingly called them “Molotov cocktails.”
The Red Army had its ass kicked in Finland by the way.
There won’t be any Molotov cocktails flying around Moscow these days, though. The only cocktails being mixed and leaving fiery trails will be the ones Russia’s sickly indifferent consume for…
