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Afghan resistance fighters return to a village destroyed by Soviet forces

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

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South Asia

Afghanistan

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

Aerial view of National Mall

North America

United States

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Pakistan

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Soviet Union. Communist Party. Central Committee (CPSU CC)

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Portrait of Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China, 1972.

East Asia

China

Sino-Soviet Relations

Andrei Gromyko at the UN, 1981

Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich

1909- 1989

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Amīn, Ḥafīẓ Allāh

1929- 1979

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Karmal, Babrak

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

Eastern Europe

East Germany

Sino-Soviet Split, 1960-1984

Anatoly Dobrynin, 1977

Dobrynin, Anatoly Fedorovich

1919- 2010

Sino-Soviet Rapprochement, 1985-1989

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Leonid Brezhnev Collection

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May 27, 1980	Conversation between Soviet Foreign Minister Comrade Andrei Gromyko with US Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie, 27 May 1980 Muskie and Gromyko discuss tensions between the Soviet Union and United States following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
January 10, 1980	Telegram from GDR Embassy in Moscow to Socialist Unity Party (SED) Central Committee Secretary Hermann Axen et al. Based on conversations with the Soviet Foreign Ministry, the situation in Afghanistan is stabilizing.
September 17, 1979	Telegram from East German Embassy in Kabul to Socialist Unity Party (SED) General Secretary Erich Honecker, 17 September 1979 Report on the situation in Kabul following the overthrow of Nur Muhammad Taraki in a coup.
September 16, 1979	Information from CC CPSU to GDR leader E. Honecker Information from CC CPSU to GDR leader E. Honecker regarding the tensions in Afghanistan between Taraki and Amin and the ineffectiveness on Soviet pressure for greater Afghan unity
October 1, 1979	Information from the CC CPSU to GDR leader Honecker Information from the CC CPSU to GDR leader Honecker on Amin’s overthrow of Taraki and the situation in Afghanistan
October 4, 1979	Transcript of Brezhnev Honecker summit in East Berlin (excerpt on Iran and Afghanistan) Transcript of Brezhnev Honecker summit in East Berlin (excerpt on Iran and Afghanistan) with Brezhnev discussing the leadership of Amin and expressing continued Soviet support for Afghanistan
June 21, 1980	Information from the CC CPSU to Erich Honecker Information from the CC CPSU to Erich Honecker on the withdrawal of some Soviet troops from Afghanistan
July 18, 1980	Information from the CC CPSU to Erich Honecker Information from the CC CPSU to Erich Honecker regarding Pakistan’s wishes for holding talks between Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan and Pakistan’s wish to see Karmal removed as head of government
October 13, 1978	Information from CC CPSU to GDR leader Erich Honecker Information from CC CPSU to GDR leader Erich Honecker regarding widespread repressions in Afghanistan and the general comradeship between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union