"Molotov has a fine forehead, and looks and acts like a French professor of medicine — orderly, precise, pedantic. His importance is sometimes not appreciated; he is by no means a mere figurehead, but a man of first-rate intelligence and influence. Molotov is a vegetarian and a teetotaler. Stalin gives him much of the dirty work to do. He had the nasty job of admitting how many cattle and hogs were killed by the peasants before the famine."
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Russian communistsSoviet premiersMinisters of Foreign Affairs of Russia and the Soviet UnionCommunist Party of the Soviet Union membersAmbassadors of Russia and the Soviet Union
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John Gunther, in Inside Europe : Again Completely Revised (1938), p. 483
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