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- 1997 Aug (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Karen Brutents, Deputy Head of the International Department of the Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, [1980], relating to the Soviet involvement in the war in Afghanistan, 1979-1989, including the Soviet attitude to Nur Mohammad Taraki, President of the Revolutionary Council, Apr 1978-Sep 1979, and Hafizullah Amin, President of the Revolutionary Council, Sep-Dec 1979; Soviet suspicions of US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) involvement in Afghanistan; the decision to occupy Afghanistan, 1979; and the decision of Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1985-1991, to withdraw the Soviet Army from Afghanistan, (1986). 14pp
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