Willy Brandt writes to Leonid Brezhnev about issues plaguing arms control negotiations between the US and the USSR. Particular attention is paid to the way the US Presidential election has hampered progress.

Creator

Brandt, Willy, 1913-1992

Subjects Discussed

• Elections--United States
• Germany (West)--Foreign relations
• Euromissiles Crisis
• Soviet Union--Foreign policy
• Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States
• Germany (West)--Foreign relations--Soviet Union
• United States--Foreign policy

Locations discussed

• Soviet Union
• United States
• West Germany
• Western Europe

Appears in Collections

• Euromissiles Crisis
• United States-Soviet Relations

Source

• Willy Brandt Archive, A9, 7, Schreiben Brandt an Breshnew, 17.9.1980. Also published in Willy Brandt, Berliner Ausgabe, Bonn (Dietz), Vol. 9, 2003.-Contributed by Bernd Rother.

Original Archive

• Willy Brandt Archive, Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Type

• Letter

Language

• German

Publishers

• Cold War International History Project (CWIHP)

Rights

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Record ID

• 112357