January 10, 1980
Telegram from GDR Embassy in Moscow to Socialist Unity Party (SED) Central Committee Secretary Hermann Axen et al.
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10 January 1980
Telegram from Moscow
Urgent Flash
To [SED Central Committee members] comrades Axen, [Joachim] Hermann, [Werner] Krolikowski, Mahlow and Ziebart
From conversations in the USSR Foreign Ministry
6. The Soviet comrades consider that in Afghanistan successful measures to stabilize the internal situation are being carried out. The creation of a new party and state apparatus is progressing. The distribution of information must be completely renewed, since progressive forces in the media were removed by the [Hafizullah] Amin regime.
Based on conversations with the Soviet Foreign Ministry, the situation in Afghanistan is stabilizing.
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