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March 5, 1946	Churchhill's "Iron Curtain" Speech, "Sinews of Peace" Text of speech given by Churchill at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri in which he first used the phrase "iron curtain."
February 9, 1946	Speech Delivered by Stalin at a Meeting of Voters of the Stalin Electoral District, Moscow English translation of Stalin's 1946 "election" speech.
February 22, 1946	George Kennan's 'Long Telegram' George F. Kennan writes to the Secretary of State with a lengthy analysis of Soviet policy in an attempt to explain their recent uncooperative behavior. This message would later become famous as the "long telegram."
May 8, 1945	Act of Military Surrender, Germany English text of the official act of military surrender to the Allied and Soviet forces signed by German High Command.
February 11, 1945	Yalta Conference Agreement, Declaration of a Liberated Europe The text of the agreements reached at the Yalta (Crimea) Conference between President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Stalin.
September 27, 1946	Telegram from Nikolai Novikov, Soviet Ambassador to the US, to the Soviet Leadership Soviet Ambassador to the US, Nikolai Novikov, describes the advent of a more assertive US foreign policy. Novikov cautions the Soviet leadership that the Truman administration is bent on imposing US political, military and economic domination around the world. This telegram has, since its discovery in the Russian archives, been labelled the Soviet equivalent of US Ambassador to the Soviet Union George Kennan's "Long telegram."
January 29, 1941	Notes from the Meeting between Comrade Stalin and Economists Concerning Questions in Political Economy, 29 January 1941 Notes from L.A. Leont’ev's January 1941 meeting with Stalin, regarding drafts of two commissioned textbooks on political economy. Stalin gives his views on "planning", "wages", "fascism", and other issues.
May 17, 1946	Speech by Mátyás Rákosi, General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party at the Meeting of the Central Committee, 17 May 1946 Speech by Mátyás Rákosi, General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party at the Meeting of the Central Committee, 17 May 1946.
February 15, 1952	Notes from L.A. Leont’ev's February 1952 Meeting about Questions in Political Economy Stalin discusses his "Remarks" on the finished political economy textbook, and fields questions regarding the "Remarks" and various terminologies in the book. Stalin emphasizes the importance of keeping the public knowledge of the extent of his involvement in the formation of the text to a minimum.
May 30, 1950	Stalin’s Meeting about Political Economy textbook, 30 May 1950 Meeting about Political economy. Discussions on political economy and book pending publication.