Why Did Soldiers In WW2 Use Molotov Cocktails? #shorts

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When things started looking dire in the trenches, WW2 soldiers turned to their old tricks.

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"The trenches in

Christ you ARE an old veteran

jordanhicks

Ah yes, the Molotov Cocktail, given the name after its extensive use in the Finnish Winter War of 1418.

Jonpo

Imagine you enlist during WW1 and there's a soldier in the heat of battle like "Alright there mate, welcome to the trenches. We're in a bit of a pickle as you can see..."

pandamilkshake

"The trenches in 1418"
Someone's had a swig of those molotovs

zimwitt

Fact checking: Molotov cocktails were actually a Finnish invention. When Soviet forces attacked Finland in 1939, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov, Stalin's foreign minister, claimed the warplanes were airlifting food to the country, not dropping bombs. The Finns responded by dubbing the bombs “Molotov's bread baskets” and offered to provide drinks—or cocktails—to go with them. These were especially useful because Finland had SIGNIFICANTLY less tanks than Russia did, and they were used to combat tanks. This was because, at that point in time, one of the best things to fight a tank with, was another tank.

The Finnish defenders knocked out almost 2, 000 Russian tanks during the Russian invasion, and reportedly some 400 of these kills were by fire, mainly Molotov cocktails. Keep in mind, the Red Army started the campaign with over 2, 500 tanks of various types. Finland, for comparison, only had 32 obsolete Renault FT's, 26 Vickers 6 ton tanks (all without any weapons) and two training tanks, a Vickers-Carden-Loyd Model 1933, and a Vickers-Carden-Loyd Mk VI*. The Molotov Cocktail, at the time, was an often effective anti-tank weapon, as well as anti-personnel, and heck, anti-everything. Thank you. Just wanted to note that this was just the history but in me wanting to avoid misinformation being spread. I love your content, and hope you continue making more!

cosmo

It's actually Finnish, in the beginning. :-P

Briselance

The name Molotov cocktail is due to Finnish humour. Russia did not name or develop it.
Molotov's cocktail got it's name when the Soviet Union's foreign minister Molotov denied bombing Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Molotov said that the planes had dropped food packages and not bombs to Helsinki, so Finns jokingly called them Molotov's breadbaskets. Finns used petrol bombs as anti-tank weapons, they aimed them at the tanks' vents, which caused the flames and fumes to be sucked into the tank. Finns started joking that they were only gifting visitors with cocktails, just like Molotov had gifted Helsinki with food, and soon petrol bombs were referred to as Molotov's cocktails.
They were made in a small town brewery, and because the early Molotov cocktails had the town's name on them, the Soviet Union targeted the town. Finland build extensive air defence systems around the small town of Rajamäki.

KNYD

Although it was first used in the Spanish civil war, the name of this explosive device has its origin in the Winter War of 1939. At that time Viacheslav Molotov (People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union) told to the Finnish population during the war that the Red Army Air Force was not bombing them, but was supplying them with food by air. Sarcastically, the Finns began calling Soviet cluster bombs "Molotov bread baskets" and the fuel-filled bottles they hurled at Soviet tanks "Molotov cocktails, " as a pun on a drink and the alleged food thrown by the Russians.

ortensiopomo

Bro if those things actually worked like I use them.. it musta been beautiful.

DefectiveWanderer

I think first modern use of what we know as Molotov date back to the spanish civil war in 1936, where there where plenty of empty wine bottles.

angelpascual

Ok, the Molotov Cocktail wasn't Russian nor finish, and although they have no official inventor, the first time they were used in large proportions was in the Spanish Civil War, because neither of both sides had enough supplies to arm their forces against the few tanks the other could have, so they started using Molotov Cocktails to stop the tanks from massacring their forces and to cause a little bit of panic among the enemy forces

enriquebenedicto

It is not a Russian invention, but by Finish soldiers in 1939 when Soviet Union attacked Finland. The original name was cocktail for Molotov.

Volynyanka