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Jan Nowak-Jeziorański broadcasting for Radio Free Europe, 3 May 1952

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A photo of Joseph Stalin from 1943

Stalin, Joseph

1879- 1953

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Chehab, Emir Farid

1908- 1985

Nikita Khrushchev at the UNGA, 1962.

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A photo of Joseph Stalin from 1943

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Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich

1914- 1984

Leonid Brezhnev, 1974.

Brezhnev, Leonid Il'ich

1906- 1982

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Polyanskiy, D. S.

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August 8, 1949	Untitled report on a meeting of Communist parties A meeting of Communist Parties endorses future activities and plans to counter Turkish, Syrian, and other regional anti-communist plans.
August 3, 1949	Untitled report on Soviet interests in the Middle East The Russian Commission is showing interest in the Middle East, especially in Turkish-Syrian collaboration and American and British support for a Turkish fight against communism.
July 30, 1960	Journal of Soviet Ambassador to the DPRK A.M. Puzanov for 30 July 1960 Puzanov and Pak Geum-cheol exchange their opinions on the Soviet-North Korean relationship, Soviet economic aid toward North Korea, and North Korea's policies toward South Korea.
January 24, 1962	Transcription of Speech by Yugoslav General Ivan Gosnjak This note describes a conference of important governmental leaders that gathered on Dec. 21, 1961 to hear Gosnjak speak. He spoke about the power of socialism and the importance of a united Soviet bloc against adversity.
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."
February 25, 1956	Khrushchev's Secret Speech, 'On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences,' Delivered at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union In a secret speech before a closed plenum of the 20th Congress of the CPSU, Khrushchev denounced Stalin’s cult of the personality. In addition, he revealed that Stalin had rounded up thousands of people and sent them into a huge system of political work camps (Gulags). This revelation was met with astonishment by many present for the speech, but helped to break the power that Stalin still held over the country.
1970	Briefing Book on Radio Liberty Committee CIA reviews RL history in a briefing book (extract)
April 28, 1966	Report of the Panel on US Government Radio Broadcasting to the Communist Bloc Panel commissioned by the White House and comprised of Zbigniew Brzezinski, William E. Griffith, John S. Hays, and Richard S. Salant recommends continuation of RFE and RL as covertly funded objective news services, along with VOA and RIAS, discontinuation of public solicitation of private financial donations to RFE, and (Hays dissenting) establishing a Radio Free China