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September 2, 1950

CPSU Politburo Decision on the Secret Archives of the Syngman Rhee Government

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Decision to entrust Vyshinsky to print in the Soviet press the documents found in the archives of the Syngman Rhee government, seized when the communists took Seoul.

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2014-01-28

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