This homemade bomb was used for the first time in the Spanish Civil War as an artifact against armored vehicles.
Despite having this name, the Molotov cocktail is a Spanish invention. As we say, it first appeared during the Spanish Civil War. It represented a cheap weapon used by the republican army militias due to the lack of weapons. However, the name of the Molotov cocktail comes from Finland , later years, in the attempt to conquer this country in 1940. The Finns baptized this new weapon with the surname of the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Viacheslav Skrjabin, alias Molotov, who during World War II prompted the Russian partisans to mass-manufacture these incendiary bombs to resist the invasion of Nazi troops.
