Armenia

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Photograph of Helmut Kohl, 1982.

Kohl, Helmut

1930 - 2017

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Soviet Union. Committee for State Security (KGB)

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Mikhail Gorbachev, 1986

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich

1931 - 2022

Boris Yeltsin at the United Nations, October 1995

Yeltsin, Boris

1931 - 2007

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Schmidbauer, Bernd

1939 -

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Vaezi, Mahmoud

1952 -

Soviet soldier taking a photograph of another soldier in Red Square, Moscow, 1959

Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

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Eastern Europe

Lithuania

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Eastern Europe

Azerbaijan

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Middle East

Lebanon

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Middle East

Iraq

Ukrainian Motherland Monument, Kyiv

Eastern Europe

Ukraine

George H.W. Bush and Lech Walesa

CIA Reports on the Collapse of Communism in Europe

Emir Farid Chehab

Emir Farid Chehab Collection

Helmut Kohl addresses the United Nations, June 1997.

Helmut Kohl Transcripts

Mitrokhin Archive

Ukrainian Nuclear History

Photograph of Gorbachev-Bush summit at Malta, 1989

End of the Cold War

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