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DISTURBING VIDEO OF MOLOTOV COCKTAIL ATTACK

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The 'Molotov cocktail' was named to mock a Soviet minister!

Finnish soldiers coined the term in the 1939 Winter War, sarcastically naming the weapon after Soviet FM Vyacheslav Molotov, who claimed USSR bombers were dropping 'bread baskets' on Finland — not bombs.

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