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Najibullah, Mohammad

1947 - 1996

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Brezhnev, Leonid Il'ich

1906 - 1982

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Mikhail Gorbachev, 1986

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich

1931 - 2022

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Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich

1909 - 1989

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Amīn, Ḥafīẓ Allāh

1929 - 1979

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May 12, 1982	CPSU Memorandum, 'The Position of the PRC on Afghanistan' Report describing China's subversive actions against the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan.
October 23, 1980	Memorandum of Conversations between Socialist Unity Party of German General Secretary Erich Honecker and Sultan Ali Keshtmand, Member of the Politburo of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) Honecker and Keshtmand discuss the current situation in Afghanistan after the coup and Soviet invasion. Honecker compares it to East Germany's tenuous international position after 1945.
May 27, 1980	Conversation between Soviet Foreign Minister Comrade Andrei Gromyko with US Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie, 27 May 1980 Muskie and Gromyko discuss tensions between the Soviet Union and United States following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
January 10, 1980	Telegram from GDR Embassy in Moscow to Socialist Unity Party (SED) Central Committee Secretary Hermann Axen et al. Based on conversations with the Soviet Foreign Ministry, the situation in Afghanistan is stabilizing.
September 17, 1979	Telegram from East German Embassy in Kabul to Socialist Unity Party (SED) General Secretary Erich Honecker, 17 September 1979 Report on the situation in Kabul following the overthrow of Nur Muhammad Taraki in a coup.
September 28, 1978	Dispatch from the Head of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (CPCz) Central Committee’s International Relations Department M. Stefanak to the Czechoslovak Embassy in Kabul Report that Afghan politician Babrak Karmal was undergoing treatment for heart problems in Czechoslovakia.
August 23, 1990	Record of a Conversation of M. S. Gorbachev with President of Afghanistan Najibullah Gorbachev and Najibullah discuss the instability in the Soviet Union following perestroika reforms, and the comparatively quiet situation in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of Soviet troops.
June 13, 1988	Record of a Conversation of M. S. Gorbachev with President of Afghanistan, General Secretary of the CC PDPA Najibullah Gorbachev and Najibullah discuss perestroika and the reforms taking place in the Soviet Union, and the ongoing withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.
April 7, 1988	Record of a Conversation of M. S. Gorbachev with President of Afghanistan, General Secretary of the CC PDPA Najibullah, Tashkent Najibullah and Gorbachev discuss the situation in Afghanistan, the politics of the new government, plans for the withdrawal of Soviet troops, and the Geneva Accords signed in 1988 to facilitate it.
March 29, 1988	Record of a Conversation of M. S. Gorbachev with the General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party [PCI] Alessandro Natta Gorbachev explains to Natta about issues with the Soviet withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, including disagreements with the United States on the plans for the coalition government.