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              promoted peace agreements with the wartime allies of Nazi Germany: he knocked out peace
            
            
              agreements from these states since "my task as minister of foreign affairs was to expand the
            
            
              borders of our Fatherland."
            
            
              In March 1949, he was removed, not released, from his post because Stalin suspected him of
            
            
              abetting "enemies of the people." Had Stalin lived longer (he died in March 1953) Molotov,
            
            
              Mikoyan and Voroshilov could have become victims of another wave of purges among the
            
            
              top political figures.