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- 1997 Aug (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Valentin Varennikov, deputy head of the Soviet General Staff from 1979-1984, relating to the Soviet attitude to Afghanistan; including the government under Nur Mohammad Taraki, President of the Revolutionary Council, Apr 1978-Sep 1979, and Hafizullah Amin, President of the Revolutionary Council, Sep-Dec 1979; the decision to send Soviet troops the Afghanistan; the course of the Afghan War, 1979-1989; the decision to withdraw Soviet forces from Afghanistan, (1986); the policies of Gorbachev. Also comments on the shooting down of the Korean Air Lines Flight 007, over Soviet airspace, Aug 1983. 31pp
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