Molotovin leipäkori

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Finnish

RRAB-3

Etymology

Molotovin (Molotov's) leipäkori (breadbasket); thus named because the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov claimed that the Soviet Union merely dropped food for starving Finns when accused of fire-bombing the civilians during the Fenno-Soviet Winter War in 1939 -1940.

Noun

Molotovin leipäkori

  1. Molotov bread basket (nickname of RRAB-3, a Soviet-made droppable bomb dispenser that was designed to scatter 100 or more incendiary bombs around)

Declension

Possessive forms of Molotovin leipäkori (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

See also