Q. How were Molotov cocktails named? A.K., Swampscott A. The "cocktail" is a gasoline-filled bottle with a slow burning wick that is ignited before the crude incendiary is thrown. When the bottle hits its target it bursts and the ignited gasolne spreads. The device was first used by the Chinese against invading Japanese tanks in 1937. But the name came from the Finns, who used the ...

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