Molotov the history of a deadly drink

 



If you have been following up military history you will see that most guns and military equipment are constantly developing and changing in front of our eyes pretty quickly but also there are weapons which are used in a different variety of wars and these ones for me are the most interesting. 

One of the usual suspects is a friendly drink who is being used at this moment to defend Ukraine and was used by the Finns to stop the Soviets, this friendly drink is called Molotov and you have to be careful if you are a drinker because sometimes it can get very hot. The drink was used for the first time in the Spanish civil war but the famous name comes from people that don't speak spanish.

Where does the name come from? 

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was a treaty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union where they see eye to eye and firm an non agression treaty which involved dividing half of poland for each party, the Russian diplomat that helped to make this deal was called Vyacheslav Molotov. Both Stalin and Hitler were satisfied with this and Poland suffered a lot on account of this. In this pact they also marked distinctives zones of influence over europe such as Lithuania or Estonia, but the most important country of this drink's history who saw itself affected by this pact was Finland. 

Between 1930 and 1940 took place in Finland what is called the "Winter War", a war very special and particular where a tiny nation such as finland caused the soviets plenty of loses and only ended up losing nine percent of his territory. The Finns had to get creative in the defense of their territory while the war was happening and used this special drink to ambush and burn the advancing Russians. 

The name of the drink is born in this period of time the defender called this the "Molotov Koktail", making reference to our old Vyacheslav.But why? Because Vyacheslav claimed that bombing the Finns whas "Humanitarian aid", the Finns nicknamed the bombs that fell to them "Molotov bread baskets", mocking Vyacheslav the Finns promised to give them something to drink in return to the food and the name of the cocktail was invented

How to prepare the drink

The cocktail can be prepared in a variety of fashions and is very cheap, you can find the elements at home. I recommend you to utilize gloves, a hat and goggles for the preparation. Once you have your security checked you need to start making it, the most common way of preparing this cocktail is utilizing a glass bottle and mixing gasoline and other inflammable substances that will spread with the contact of the object, to this you add a wick and you have all the ingredients. 

Before throwing it be sure to light the wick and this is all you need to make a great cocktail if you are waiting for any unwanted guest.

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