The History of the Molotov Cocktail | Defending Europe | National Geographic UK

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Coined by Finnish soldiers, the Molotov cocktail is named after Vyacheslav Molotov, a leading figure in the Soviet Union from the 1920s to 1950s. During the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union, Finland sustained heavy bombing. When Molotov claimed that the bombs were actually parcels of food, the Finns responded by attacking advancing Soviet tanks with Molotov "cocktails" as a "drink to go with the food". Military historian Alex Churchill and other experts head to Finland to find out more about the Finns' defensive history.
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@normaaliihminen722 13 дней назад

“Send our Best regards to Molotov”

@unknownentity8256 10 дней назад

"He gives us bread, we give him a cocktail."

@simokoistinen276 12 дней назад

A small correction for 0:37, not pine sap but tar because it makes the whole mixture stick to the surface on contact. And the idea was to throw the bottle on air intakes of T-26 which are on the backside of the hull. However, in this case it is understandable that it is thrown on the front side since there is so much fire sensitive matter around. Here is a scene from a movie called Talvisota (The Winter War) from 1989 where two Finnish soldiers use the molotov cocktail and a pine log for destroying the T-26 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-afYEXYbwOvE.html

@RoyalMela 11 дней назад

These were mass produced in Rajamäki factory, which was the main alcohol distillery in Finland. Once Russians got a hand on one and saw the cap had Rajamäki factory printing, Soviets tried to bomb the factory, and in response two air defense towers with anti-aircraft guns were built next to the factory.

@-R-o-k 9 дней назад

Only palce in Finland that had anti aircraft towers was this alcohol factory. Priorities!

@Raumance 9 дней назад

The AA towers are still there.

@janko6608 12 дней назад

Sauna and Molotov Cocktail - our input to global vocabulary 😊

@lucone2937 11 дней назад

Stalin also got his name to military history because of Katjuša, a Soviet artillery rocket launcher. Germans called it Stalinorgeln, Stalin's organ. It has a distinctive howling sound.

@perkele2802 11 дней назад

@@lucone2937 It was called "Stalinin urut" also in Finland. I don't know if we took that word from Germany or other way around but I haven't seen anglo-americans using it.

@lucone2937 11 дней назад

@@perkele2802 I think the German troops coined originally the nickname "Stalin's organ" (Stalinorgel) around 1941-1942, comparing the visual resemblance of the launch array to a pipe organ, and the sound of the weapon's rocket motors. Besides the same name was used also in Finland ("Stalinin urut") and other Nordic countries ("Stalinorgel"), in the Netherlands ("Stalinorgel"), in France ("orgue de Staline") and in Hungary ("Sztálinorgona").

@saje446 12 дней назад

The "food supplies" got the nickname "Molotov's bread baskets" so the molotov cocktail was named as a mock for having a drink too with the bread baskets

@taahaseois.8898 10 дней назад

Yes we all watched the same video.

@saje446 10 дней назад

@@taahaseois.8898 that wasnt explained in the video

@taahaseois.8898 10 дней назад

@@saje446 Well fuck. It was in some longer version. Technically the same video, just a bit longer clip.

@Cigaristocat 11 дней назад

Glad it wasn't the stereotypical bottle with a rag in it, but actually storm matches as it should be.

@ravenfin1916 12 дней назад

Molotov's bread basket, officially called RRAB-3 by the Soviet Union, was a cluster bomb that the Soviet Union used for the first time in the Winter War in the bombing of Finnish cities. The bomb contained dozens of smaller incendiary bombs. The turbine at the tip acts as a power source as it rotates as the bomb drops: the mechanism opens the sides of the bomb and launches the smaller bombs outwards using springs. The large wings at the back cause the bomb to spin as it falls, spreading the explosives over a wide area. According to some sources, the bomb also contained a larger, conventional explosive bomb. The bomb got its better-known name thanks to Vyacheslav Molotov's radio speech in 1939: Molotov claimed that the Soviet Union would not bomb Finland, but drop food from airplanes to the Finns. In response, the Finns named the fuel bottles "Molotov cocktails".

@JuisSekasi 10 дней назад

Molotovin koktaili

@abc_0_10_11 12 дней назад

Say hello to my little friend

@rogerhommas9750 9 дней назад

My mothers father went volontary to war as 18. He was 2 weeks in training, and 5 years at war. He laughed at me when I 1993 was in army, and they did inspections of our lockers... He was 5 years on the Sovjet front, Svir / Ural as farest.. __ and never had an own bed,own locker, own chair , or inspections in his 5 years in Finish Army. His job was to craw to tanks with a sticky- bomb ( kasapanos ) and he survived. JR 61 was the company, and books / historics where made in swe and maybe fin language.. ..mayby somebody tra...I' m starting now.. ( ex farmer seeking job )

@rikutaskinen5432 10 дней назад

Halko OS usefuö as well...

@komocka 11 дней назад

The modern recipe from Ukraine uses styrofoam dissolved in gasoline

@lawrencefrost9063 11 дней назад

Whatever floats your boat..or burns your tank.

@EevaPirilä 8 дней назад

It's maybe not so easy to get tar nowadays. Styrofoam didn't exist in 19390😅

@Nightwalk444 8 дней назад

But the question is also whether the molotov's purpose is different in Ukraine, do they use them for anti tank? Since styrofoam is there to make it stickier.

@painanmutsiis7236 7 дней назад

So napalm?

@Rentta 7 дней назад

That's just homemade napalm

@scanpolar 11 дней назад

It was a real cocktail ! Made in Rajamäki Koskenkorva vodka bottles ( viina ) . Not very tasty but very strong.

@Xerdoz 11 дней назад

This is a pretty crappy short video. Incendiary mixtures in bottles were used in the Spanish civil war and possibly even earlier but Finns gave it the name "Molotov Cocktail or Molotov's Cocktail" and they refined the mixture and used storm matches instead of rags and mass produced them. Maybe there's a longer video with more detail but this short clip is missing a lot of information.

@Hukkavei 11 дней назад

Incendiary bombs have been used for as far as flammable liquid has existed. It's been used in castle sieges and naval battles. But I reckon this short video was supposed to be a insight to the literal "molotov Cocktail" -name and where it came from. So there wasn't a whole lot reason to dip into any unnecesessary information. I think this was taken from a longer video, the editing and narration makes it look like it's snippet from a longer documentary.

@WeightlessBallast 11 дней назад

@@Hukkavei It's like absinthe: the Swiss invented it, but the French made it popular.

@Tempires 10 дней назад

@@Hukkavei documentary series this is part of is called "Defending Europe"

@jannekallio5047 9 дней назад

Spain with it's long history has already many great things. Let Finns have their cocktail and sauna.. it is all we have in our short history.. rest is just suffering under bigger powers..