Vyacheslav Molotov

Molotov in WorldWar
Vyacheslav Molotov was an important Soviet official, Head of the Soviet Union's Foreign Ministry. In this capacity he negotiated with the Race and with the Soviets' allies, which included any other human government resisting the Lizards.

Early in the war, he travelled to Atvar's bannership, where he first informed Atvar that humans did not organize themselves politically only into empires but into a variety of other political systems little understood by the Race and collectively referred to as not-empires. He relished the opportunity to horrify Atvar by admitting that his government came to power by murdering an emperor, a crime of unspeakable horror to the Race (though it was attempted, and failed, on one occasion in their history).

Molotov represented the Soviet Union at Cairo, when Atvar agreed to treat with five human powers diplomatically. Molotov generally was as aggressive as possible in assuring a favorable agreement for his country, but he did not oppose the Race's colonization of Poland for fear that, if left in human hands, it would precipitate another war between his nation and Germany.

When Stalin died, Molotov became General Secretary of the Soviet Union, a position he held when the Colonization Fleet arrived. He served in that capacity for many years, though in 1963 NKVD chief Lavrenti Beria attempted a coup against him, and Molotov was saved only by Red Army Marshal Gregori Zhukov. For several years, he was indebted to Zhukov and often felt he continued to serve as General Secretary only at the general's sufferance.

During his tenure, Molotov skilfully protected the Soviet Union's interests against the Race. Achievements include secretly supporting Mao Tse-Tung's resistance to the Race in China and negotiating the end of the second war between Germany and the Soviet Union, during which the use of atomic bombs in Poland did environmental damage to Soviet territory.

Molotov died at the age of 92, the last of the generation of human leaders who had been prominent when the Race invaded Earth. His nation christened its first starship, which it sent to visit Home, the Molotov.

Molotov in Southern Victory
Known as "the Hammer" he faced a failed Red revolution in Russia; he was in a Red Holdout in the Volga area along with the "Man of Steel", Joseph Stalin.