Armenia

Connected Conn.

People

Photograph of Helmut Kohl, 1982.

Kohl, Helmut

1930- 2017

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Soviet Union. Committee for State Security (KGB)

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Mikhail Gorbachev, 1986

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich

1931- 2022

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Yeltsin, Boris

1931- 2007

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Schmidbauer, Bernd

1939-

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Vaezi, Mahmoud

1952-

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

Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

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Eastern Europe

Lithuania

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Eastern Europe

Azerbaijan

Photograph of the Hands of Victory Monument in Baghdad.

Middle East

Iraq

Ukrainian Motherland Monument, Kyiv

Eastern Europe

Ukraine

Photograph of Tripoli, Lebanon

Middle East

Lebanon

George H.W. Bush and Lech Walesa

CIA Reports on the Collapse of Communism in Europe

Emir Farid Chehab

Emir Farid Chehab Collection

Mitrokhin Archive

Ukrainian Nuclear History

Photograph of Gorbachev-Bush summit at Malta, 1989

End of the Cold War

Popular Documents

May 20, 1983	Colonel A.I. Samoilov, Head of the 3rd Department of the 6th Service of the KGB Administration of the USSR for the City of Moscow, 'Information about Several Problems in the Use of Atomic Energy Stations in the USSR' This document discusses weaknesses in the technical designs of nuclear power plants in the USSR and their potential consequences, concluding that the Leningrad, Kursk, and Chernobyl plants are extremely dangerous.
June 2007	The Nationalism Case. Folder 57. The Chekist Anthology. In this entry, Mitrokhin expresses the KGB’s views on the threat of organized oppositionist nationalism within the Soviet bloc.
December 10, 1988	Excerpts from the Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev Chernyaev's diary entry on the worsening situation in the Baltics and implications for the state of the Soviet Union.
November 23, 1953	Agreement on Korean Technical Personnel Receiving Training in China and Chinese Technical Personnel Working in Korea Made by the Governments of the People’s Republic of China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea The full-text of the Agreement on Korean Technical Personnel Receiving Training in China and Chinese Technical Personnel Working in Korea signed on 23 November 1953 by Zhou Enlai and Nam Il
July 30, 1990	National Intelligence Daily for Monday, 30 July 1990 The CIA’s National Intelligence Daily for 30 July 1990 describes the latest developments in the Soviet Union, Japan, Liberia, Algeria, Togo, Afghanistan, Burma, Iraq and Israel.

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