The Finns responded by dubbing the bombs “Molotov’s bread baskets” and offered to provide drinks—or cocktails—to go with them. State liquor factories had already switched from making ...

Exhibiting wit under fire, the Finns started referring to the cluster munitions dropped by the Soviets as "Molotov bread baskets." To complete the pairing, Finnish fighters started calling the ...

Exhibiting a keen wit, the Finns thus dubbed Soviet cluster bombs “Molotov bread baskets” (the food) and named the improvised weapons that they were using against Soviet armor “Molotov ...

These Soviet munitions, which were incendiary in nature, were sarcastically called “Molotov’s bread baskets.” The Finn Army, badly outmatched by the Soviet Union’s war machine, resorted to ...

It was “a drink to go with food” – the bombs dropping on Finland were ironically called “Molotov bread baskets" because Molotov used to state that the USSR was dropping food over Finland.

In response to the propaganda broadcasts, the Finna called the bombs ‘Molotov bread baskets’. So, when the hand-held bottle firebombs were developed, they called them Molotov cocktails to go ...

The Finns started to call the Soviet RRAB-3 bomb the “Molotov bread basket,” since it had 60 small incendiary bombs. By analogy, the Finnish Army started to call their bottles with incendiary ...

These Soviet munitions, which were incendiary in nature, were sarcastically called “Molotov’s bread baskets.” The Finn Army, badly outmatched by the Soviet Union’s war machine, resorted to ...

In 1942 I went to East Lane School, Wembley.One night in a heavy air raid a 'Molotov Bread Basket' of incendiary bombs just missed the school but peppered the adjacent school sports field.

Exhibiting wit under fire, the Finns started referring to the cluster munitions dropped by the Soviets as "Molotov bread baskets." Anti-government protesters hold Molotov cocktails as they attack an ...