Military History?
Alcoholic Drinks?
2007-03-08 09:35:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
You fill a glass bottle with gasoline. Then you stuff a piece of rag in the mouth of the bottle. The gasoline soaks the rag to the upper tip. You wait until a German tank is coming along a street in Stalingrad. You light the gasoline-soaked rag wick and hurl the bottle at the tank. The bottle breaks on the tank, the gasoline ignites, and you hope that enough of these will engulf the tank in flames and incinerate the crews inside or set off their ammunition. The previous answerer was indeed correct that it was named for Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov.
2007-03-08 09:46:02 · answer #1 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A molotof cocktail is a term used for a simple incindeary object. Usually it is a glass bottle filled with gasoline or some other flamable substance. The open end of the bottle is stuffed with a rag soaked in the same substance. It is so named becaseu it ie believed that the person who first used one during the russian revolutin was named Molotov.
2007-03-10 06:34:56 · answer #2 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its named after Vyacheslav Molotov.
2007-03-08 17:37:56 · answer #3 · answered by tain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no idea on the name, but take 1 part gasoline and 1 part shredded bar soap, shredded on a cheese grater. Heat the gas with a double boiler. DO NOT USE OPEN FLAMES TO HEAT THE GASOLINE!! After the gas is warmed up, slowly stir in the shredded soap, stirring slowly. As the soap melts in the gas, the soap and gas will turn goey. While it's still warm, pour it into an empty 40 oz beer bottle and top it off with a gas soaked rag. Whatever this bottle hits and breaks on, the goey gas will stick to it and burn for quite a while. Actually, it's more like napalm.
2007-03-08 17:47:28 · answer #4 · answered by bbking48507 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Russo-Finnish war of 1939-40. Finns used it to knock out russian tanks, named after Soviet foreign minister.
could be made with old motor oil, gasoline and sometime fels naptha detergent mixed in a glass bottle with a oily rag as a fuse. when the glass breaks on the tanks armor the fuel ignites and spreads - for the Finns hopefullly to the engine compartment
2007-03-08 17:47:58 · answer #5 · answered by kenai_sailor 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A Molotov cocktail is not a drink, it is an explosive, and illegal. So, you don't need to know!
2007-03-08 17:39:15 · answer #6 · answered by Joan H 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
glass bottle... gas... tar/motor oil/sugar... cloth... let soak with gas light then throw hard to break glass.
2007-03-09 22:10:00 · answer #7 · answered by xavior1st 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋