Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Vyacheslav Molotov
Born: March 9, 1890
Died: November 8, 1986 (aged 96)
Bio: Vyacheslav Molotov was Soviet politician and diplomat, a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to the 1950s, when he was dismissed from office by Nikita Khrushchev. He was the principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939.
Known for:
- The Plan of Construction and Peace (1936)
- In Praise of Learning (1938)
- The Molotov Paper on Nazi Atrocities