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TIL a Molotov Cocktail is so named because of the Finn's mockery of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, where Vyacheslav Moloto said bombing raids over Finland where "Humanitarian Bread Drops". Finns attacked Soviet tanks with the aforementioned weapons as "a drink to go with the bread"

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