Why Finland Named a Weapon After Molotov

Half a million Soviet soldiers, thousands of tanks, and Finland's answer was a drink. On the radio, foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov swore his bombers were dropping food, not bombs — bread for starving Finns. So the Finns named their petrol bomb after him: a cocktail to go with the meal. But the legend gets the rest wrong. The Finns didn't invent it, and they didn't improvise it in a panic — they engineered it before the war and bottled half a million in the distillery that made the nation's vodka. This is the real story.