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Eastern Africa

Ethiopia

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Eastern Africa

Somalia

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Mengistu Haile-Mariam

1937-

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Eastern Africa

Eritrea

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Ratanov

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The Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa

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Soviet Union. Embassy (Ethiopia)

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Fidel Castro, 1959.

Castro, Fidel

1926- 2016

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Barre, Maxamed Siyaad (Siad Barre)

1920- 1995

Soviet soldier taking a photograph of another soldier in Red Square, Moscow, 1959

Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

Erich Honecker, 1976.

Honecker, Erich Ernst Paul

1912- 1994

The Palace of the Republic (Palast der Republik) in Berlin

Eastern Europe

East Germany

President Ronald Reagan, Vice-President Bush, and oviet General Secretary Gorbachev

United States-Soviet Relations

Cuba's National Capitol Building, January 2010.

Central America and Caribbean

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August 5, 1977	Soviet Ambassador to Ethiopia A.P. Ratanov, Memorandum of Conversation with Mengistu Soviet Ambassador to Ethiopia A.P. Ratanov, Memorandum of Conversation with Mengistu regarding Ethiopian responses to Somali actions and the Soviet role in providing supplies to Ethiopia
August 7, 1977	Soviet Ambassador to Ethiopia A.P. Ratanov, Memorandum of Conversation with Mengistu Soviet Ambassador to Ethiopia A.P. Ratanov, memorandum of cnversation with Mengistu regarding Soviet support for Ethiopia and support from other nations for Somalia
August 11, 1977	CC CPSU Politburo transcript (excerpt) CC CPSU Politburo transcript (excerpt) discussing the Ethiopian appeal for assistance
August 26, 1977	Record of Soviet-Somali Talks, Moscow (excerpts), with Somali aide-memoire, 10 August 1977 Record of Soviet-Somali Talks, Moscow (excerpts), with Somali aide-memoire, 10 August 1977 regarding Soviet evaluations of the situation in Somalia and the Somali-Ethiopian conflict
August 31, 1977	Record of negotiations between Somali and Soviet officials in Moscow from 15-19 August 1977 (excerpts) Record of negotiations between Somali and Soviet officials in Moscow (excerpts) regarding Somali-Ethiopian tensions and reactions by Somalis of negative comments in Soviet press regarding Somalia
August 23, 1977	Memorandum of conversation between Soviet Ambassador to Ethiopia Ratanov and Cuban Ambassador to Ethiopia Jose Perez Novoa Memorandum of conversation between Soviet Ambassador to Ethiopia Ratanov and Cuban Ambassador to Ethiopia Jose Perez Novoa regarding the question of inviting Cuban military personnel to Ethiopia
May 11, 1978	Memorandum of Conversation between [SED] Comrade Friedel Trappen and Soviet Comrade R. A. Ulyanovsky in the CC of the CPSU The conversation focused on the negotiations between Ethiopia and the Eritrean Liberation Movement. The talks were focusing on how the Eritreans could obtain a certain degree of regional autonomy
June 7, 1978	Information on Talks of Ahmed Nasser (ELF-RC) in the USSR Solidarity Committee Ahmed Nasser, leader of ELF-RC (one of the Eritrean liberation movements), discusses the internal political situation of Eritrea.
June 9, 1978	Winkelmann to Hermann Axen Winkelman is describing a recent speech by Mengistu, the leader of Ethiopia
June 19, 1978	Memorandum of Conversation between Grabowski and Sinitsin in Moscow Describes a conversation that covers a speech Mengistu gave on June 14 and also a general discussion of the Horn of Africa. It focuses on international support to the different parties involved