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1928- 2014

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April 26, 1988	Eh. Shevardnadze et al to the CPSU CC, 'Measures to Build the Site of the Burial of Polish officers in Katyn (Smolensk Oblast’) and the Expansion of the Access to it of the Citizens of the PNR and of Other Countries' Shevardnadze and other Soviet officials propose to create a memorial to Polish officers murdered during the Katyn massacre as well as "Soviet POWs who took part in the exhumation work," and to allow Polish citizens to visit the memorial in Smolensk Oblast’.
December 21, 1989	Report Concerning the Complete Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Mongolia This report states that the Mongolian authorities requested that Soviet troops be withdrawn following the 1989 Sino-Soviet summit and rapprochement. The writers included a draft decree ordering the removal of troops by July of 1991.
March 25, 1989	Letter to Gorbachev from Shevardnadze, Yazov, and Kamentsev on Obligations for Military Assistance In this letter, Shevardnadze, Yazov, and Kamentsev discuss the Soviet Union's obligations to provide military assistance to their treaty partners, and the differences between treaties.
December 23, 1988	Diary of Teimuraz Stepanov-Mamaladze on a meeting between Eduard Shevardnadze and North Korean Foreign Minister Kim Yong-nam Kim reacts to news that the socialist countries will establish diplomatic relations with South Korea.
January 20, 1986	Diary of Teimuraz Stepanov-Mamaladze on Meeting between Eduard Shevardnadze and North Korean Foreign Minister Kim Yong-nam Kim talks about the importance of North and South Korea, referring to the peninsula as "the most explosive place on the planet."
October 31, 1988	Anatoly Chernyaev, Notes from a Meeting of the Politburo Gorbachev et al prepare for their upcoming UN visit, and discuss presenting their reformed policies, arms reductions, the implementation of perestroika, withdrawal of troops from Hungary, and overall Soviet-American relations.
June 20, 1988	Anatoly Chernyaev, Notes from a Meeting of the Politburo Anatoly Chernyaev’s notes from the Politburo session on June 20, 1988, during which military spending, party membership, the progress of perestroika, and CPSU organizational leadership were discussed.
March 24, 1988	Anatoly Chernyaev, Notes from a Meeting of the Politburo Notes from a meeting of the Politburo regarding Nina Andreeva, a Soviet scientist and political activist who accused Gorbachev of not being true communists and abandoning the Soviet system in her essay " I Cannot Forsake My Principles."
January 27, 1989	E. Shevardnadze, D. Yazov, and V. Kamentsev to Comrade M.S. Gorbachev Minister of Foreign Affairs E. Shevardnadze, Minister of Defense D. Yazov, and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers V. Kamentsev discuss Soviet military committments in the Warsaw Pact and various bilateral agreements on friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance in a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev.
1996	Excerpts from Recollections by the Former Soviet Ambassador in North Korea Aleksandr Kapto Aleksandr Kapto reflects on the Soviet Union's normalization of relations with South Korea, and the consequential fallout in relations between North Korea and the USSR. According to Kapto, North Korea threatened to develop nuclear weapons and withdraw from the NPT as a result of Soviet-South Korean rapprochement.