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

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Cuba's National Capitol Building, January 2010.

Central America and Caribbean

Cuba

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United States

Aerial photograph of CIA headquarters

United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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George H.W. Bush and Lech Walesa

CIA Reports on the Collapse of Communism in Europe

Mikhail Gorbachev, 1986

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich

1931- 2022

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Central America and Caribbean

El Salvador

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Bulgaria

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Bulgaria. Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Yeltsin, Boris

1931- 2007

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Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN)

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Soviet Foreign Policy

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Kirov, Y.

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Todor Zhivkov Collection

Cuban Foreign Relations

Photograph of Gorbachev-Bush summit at Malta, 1989

End of the Cold War

Representatives from Taiwan at the United Nations, September 1971

Taiwan's International Status

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November 23, 1981	Transcript of Meeting between US Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Cuban Vice Premier Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Mexico City Memorandum of conversation taken during the secret meeting between Alexander Haig and Cuban Vice Premier arranged by Carlos R. Rodriguez, Mexican Foreign Minister, in Mexico City
June 2, 1981	Letter by the President of the Socialist International, Brandt, to the Chairman of the Committee of the SI for Defence of the Revolution in Nicaragua, González Willy Brandt's letter is about the establishment of the Nicaragua solidarity committee, which took place in Madrid in 1981. Brandt states the importance of the new rule of law in Nicaragua and concerns on Socialist International's involvement in the country.
March 14, 1980	CPSU CC Resolution, 14 March 1980 This resolution and the attached documents give the plans for future Soviet cooperation with the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua.
April 18, 1980	CPSU CC Memo of 18 April 1980 and attached Protocol of 17 March 1980 These documents deal with the planned relations between the USSR and the Sandinista National Liberation Front.
May 29, 1980	Protocol #213/39, 29 May 1980 This protocol gives the specifics of Soviet cooperation with the Sandinistas, especially in terms of propaganda (films, photography, Marxist-Leninist literature, etc.).
May 1980	CPSU CC Decree, May 1980 The decree discusses Soviet cooperation with the Sandinistas in the areas of radio communications and combating illiteracy.
July 5, 1979	CPSU CC Protocol #166/31, 05 July 1979 Concerns the struggle in Nicaragua.
July 25, 1985	Interview with Fidel Castro A portion of an interview with Fidel Castro by Mervyn Dymally, an American politician, where Castro discusses his view that the 1988 Summer Olympic games in Seoul should be a joint effort between North and South Korea.
July 11, 1983	Information from the Bulgarian Communist Party Regarding the Visit of the Delegation of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) to Bulgaria Information summarizing the objectives of a visit of the FSLN delegation, headed by Baiardo Arse [name is spelled phonetically], to Bulgaria. The visit, which took place from 28 June to July 3 1983, aimed at exchanging information and ideas on ways to reform FSLN, in order to transform the Front into an avant-garde Marxist-Leninist party. The document describes the political and economic pressure exerted by the Reagan administration on a number of Central and Latin American countries, in order to decrease the support for the Front and other leftist revolutionary movements. According to the information FSLN responded to these measures by consolidating and strengthening its army, and national militia; maintaining transparency and political pluralism; strengthening the cooperative and state economic sector, and redirecting trade to new markets, mainly in the socialist community.
November 20, 1984	Information on Changes in the Strategic and Tactical Struggle of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMNL) A description of measures taken by the military leadership of FMNL to improve the organized struggle in Central America, in terms of creating opportunities for large-scale operations intended to lead to the ultimate defeat of the enemy – the government-supported army of El Salvador. The information was compiled based on sources of the Vietnamese Embassy in Havana, and with the cooperation of the Cuban comrades. According to the document, a decision was made to regroup military units from small squads to battalions and brigades. Following this course, the partisan movements earned considerable success in 1984, but their actions easy to trace due to the size of the new formations. As a result the Front’s combat units, hospitals and supply bases suffered severe blows. The situation at hand required that FMNL reassess its strategy and make important changes in accord with the anticipated victory of the Sandinista movement in Nicaragua and that of Reagan in the US. The document states that FMNL’s leadership switched its strategic and tactical line and reverted to armed struggle conducted by small mobile squads. This change aided the suppression of the government armed forces’ offensive.