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Molotov cocktail
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Molotov cocktail

Home-made weapon consisting of a bottle filled with petrol, plugged with a rag as a wick, ignited, and thrown as a grenade. Resistance groups during World War II named them after the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov.



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