10-24-2006, 09:44 AM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: World's rioters put to shame by Hungarians.
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Originally Posted by California Tanker
Not that I'm aware of, but it's possible. They certainly wouldn't have been called 'Molotov Cocktails' though.
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The heavily-outnumbered Finnish Army, facing Red Army tanks in what came to be known as the Winter War, borrowed an improvised incendiary device design from the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War; in that conflict, the Spanish Nationalists under the orders of General Francisco Franco had used the weapon against Soviet T-26 tanks supporting the Spanish Republicans in a failed 1936 Soviet assault near Toledo, 30 km from Madrid.[1]
When Molotov claimed in radio broadcasts that the Soviet Union was not dropping bombs but rather delivering food to the starving Finns, the Finns started to call the air bombs satirically "Molotov picnic baskets." Soon they responded by saluting the advancing tanks with "Molotov cocktails."
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