In 1954, this man proposed that the USSR join NATO. After asking his deputy, Andrei Gromyko, to draft a proposal that would promise to keep the US as part of the pan-European security collective, it was approved and sent to the UK, France, and US ... which soundly rejected the idea. Identify this man, then holding the positions of First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, who in 1939 negotiated the neutrality pact between the USSR and Nazi Germany
Vyacheslav Molotov