The number two person in the Soviet Union, the most powerful, Stalin's first assistant - Molotov

Molotov was a very good Soviet/Russian bureaucratic figure (not in the pejorative sense) and had excellent qualities to be qualified for the job.

What is this quality?

is able to sit in the office for a long time to read documents, because he can read documents for more than ten hours a day, and he has a nickname called "iron ass".

Tsar Nicholas I said: "Do you think that the emperor is ruling the country?

Later, the reason why Lao Ge was overthrown, in addition to all kinds of perverse actions, his dislike of reading the documents reported below was a key problem, which made the bureaucracy unable to function and generated serious resentment. Later, Lao Ye was able to snatch his position, and Lao Ye never had a lot to do with the fact that Lao Ye never saw the documents for approval overnight, even if Lao Ye drank two or three bottles of white for dinner, he could insist on finishing the day's documents until three o'clock in the morning, which made the bureaucracy very supportive of Lao Ye.

Therefore, Molotov's quality had a profound impact both on him personally and on the Soviet Union in the twenties, thirties and forties......

In 1934 and 1953, Molotov twice came infinitely close to being purged

Molotov summed up in his later years - Lenin was a genius, and Stalin was a very talented man.

Brother Sledgehammer suffers a loss because his main job is diplomacy, and the Chinese generally do not attach importance to diplomatic work. He was denounced on the grounds that "in Stalin's time, the post of foreign minister was not important." Influenced by traditional understanding, many Chinese's understanding of diplomacy has two contents: either "peace" or "war", and it is basically a matter of "two words can be decided", but lack of understanding of the importance and complexity of diplomacy. In fact, Sledgehammer's diplomatic work was relatively well done, and it played an important auxiliary role in the success of the Soviet Union.

Judging from the current information, the main achievements of Sledgehammer's life are in the auxiliary. The essence of his longest-serving and most acclaimed diplomatic work is to provide an accurate basis for his father's decision-making, and to be responsible for implementing his father's decision-making. So although he is an excellent doer and executor, he does not have the ability to make independent decisions, and of course he is not suitable to be the boss. Later, his loving father snubbed him, and coupled with his wife's problems, he was basically marginalized. But people are more popular than people, you say that he is not suitable to be the boss, and then look at what Emperor Corn did later, especially in diplomacy XJBG, you may feel that even if he comes up, he will never be worse than Emperor Corn.

However, although it is difficult for him to ask Sledgehammer to make decisions, he can still see the problem. When Emperor Corn wanted relations with Yugoslavia, Sledgehammer objected, and he felt that if Yugoslavia wanted to communicate with the West, it would inevitably keep its distance from the Soviet Union. Establishing good relations with Yugoslavia will not do the Soviet Union any good, but will make the countries that used to criticize Yugoslavia together with the Soviet Union at a loss, thinking that your big brother is playing a trick? Emperor Corn did not listen, and insisted on immediately having relations with Yugoslavia, and later trumpeted it as his important diplomatic achievement. As a result, the Corn Emperor fell out with China again, and it is estimated that the sledgehammer was directly speechless, and he offended China by having a good relationship with Yugoslavia, which was simply picking up sesame seeds and throwing watermelons, and the intelligence of the Corn Emperor was also amazing.

Later, when Sledgehammer was idle at home, he also saw that the "reform" carried out by Emperor Medal was nonsense. In the past, the Soviet Union used to carry out the economic accounting system, but the main purpose was to reduce costs, evaluate cadres, and there were supervision measures. Later, Emperor Medal was in charge of profits, but he did not supervise the economic cadres, which was simply to let the wolf take care of the sheep, and the consequences can be imagined. Sledgehammer can find the key to the problem at a glance, which shows that he suppresses the IQ of Emperor Corn and Emperor Medal in government affairs.

Of course, the most noteworthy thing about Sledgehammer is his good character, although he has done a lot of wrong things, but he will not stab him twice, one in front of him and one behind his back. He assists his loving father because he really thinks that his loving father is the most correct, not to benefit himself. Therefore, this point is still respected by some people who have different positions. Although Simonov later criticized his father, he also thought that the sledgehammer also had problems. But I also think that it is okay to be a sledgehammer:

The testimony of my generation

In addition, the Chinese comrades also appreciate the point of the sledgehammer, which shows that although the positions are different, everyone appreciates the more upright people.

A loyal party member with 80 years of party experience, a diplomat who laid the foundation for modern diplomacy in the Soviet Union (Russia), a "inflexible" person in the eyes of his opponents, and a serious boss in the eyes of his subordinates.

He devoted himself to the revolution in his youth, sat in almost all the major prisons of the Tsarist era, flew through the German-occupied areas and fought with Britain and the United States during World War II, and made indelible contributions to the establishment of the anti-fascist alliance. Even though he was slandered and watched all over the cold and warm in the second half of his life, his faith never changed. As former US Ambassador to the Soviet Union Pollan said, he has always "done what he believed and believed in what he did."

However, he was also one of the responsible persons for the Great Purge. He had an almost ruthless devotion to his faith and cause, could see his friends dying without saving him, and could indifferently sign arrest warrants and execution lists like many leaders of his day.

It doesn't matter to him to call him a "lackey of Stalin," an "executioner," a "revolutionary blacksmith," or a "real Bolshevik."

Talented, passionate about work, thoughtful, meticulous, and even the daily schedule is well organized. - Gromyko

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov was a man of exceptional talent, extremely calm and unforgiving.

...... He was clearly still a sane and well-trained diplomat.

...... There is no doubt that Molotov was a capable, and in many respects, typical representative of the Soviet power -- a loyal member of the party and a believer in the Communist Party.

- Winston Churchill

Conclude with his note:

But I thought that my life was basically going to be spent as I was pursuing. What I seek is to live my life like a revolutionary, a proletarian revolutionary.

...... I did not put my feelings for my relatives first, but did as much work as I could for the sake of the cause, to which I have dedicated myself and my life.

Molotov was a proletarian revolutionary and Marxist-Leninist who was a contemporary of Lenin and Stalin, and until he was eighty or ninety years old, he still adhered to the beliefs and ideals of his youth and adhered to the theory of communism. His thinking and exposition on the question of "what is socialism" is still thought-provoking today, and some of the theoretical viewpoints involved in it are worthy of further exploration and study.

Although Molotov was not a theoretician in the full sense of the word, he had a profound understanding of Leninism and Stalin's inheritance and development of Leninism, and he was much more clever than some of the so-called incumbents and "theoretical elites" who "developed Marxism," because he always stood on the stand of the proletariat and the working people.

Molotov's bread, Molotov's cocktails.

First, he has always believed in communism, especially in his later years. Second, the bureaucracy whom Trotsky called "a flash of inspiration in his youth".