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Shelest, P. IU. (Petro IUkhymovych)

1908 - 1996

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Sino-Soviet Split, 1960-1984

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Sawczuk, Wlodzimierz

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Il’nyts’kyi, Yu. V.

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Nicolae Ceausescu, 1974

Ceaușescu, Nicolae

1918 - 1989

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Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich

1914 - 1984

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September 7, 1968	Report from the Political Department of Polish Second Army on the emotional-political condition of the soldiers taking part in Operation ‘Danube’ Report states the morale of soldiers taking part in Operation Danube is still good. But there is still no change in the unfriendly relations between Czech people and Warsaw Pact soldiers. The report describes how the Czech people are under the influence of revisionist and reactionary propaganda. It also details the conflict between Czech soldiers and Polish soldiers. It also gives an update of propaganda being broadcast through Czech radio stations.
August 21, 1968	Letter from the Central Committees of the Bulgarian, East German, Hungarian, Polish, and Soviet Communist Parties regarding the Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia Letter from the Central Committees of the Communist Parties of East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and the Soviet Union explaining the need for intervention in Czechoslovakia. The letter lays out the rationale behind the Brezhnev Doctrine.
March 19, 1970	Report from the Meeting of Seven Parties on the China Issue A review of the 10-12 March meeting during which the CC International Departments discussed the China issue. A great deal of time was spent discussing whether or not China was still a socialist country. A "Protocol Note" was unanimously adopted as a result of the meeting.
November 26, 1968	Note on the events at the Seminar of Red Cross Journals from Socialist Countries, held in Prague, 19-22 Nov. 1968. Cover note from Anton Moisescu, President of the Romanian Red Cross, to Nicolae Ceausescu, Secretary General, CC RCP. Note about the experiences of N. Palade, Chief Editor of the Romanian Red Cross journal "Sanatatea" at the Socialist bloc seminar of Red Cross journals. The information note discusses Czechoslovak reactions to the Soviet-led invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia and especially of Prague. Palade describes his reception by the Czechoslovak officials and the current attitude of the Czechoslovak population vis-à-vis the Soviet Union and the other East Bloc countries, describing the pessimism that seized the population after the August 1968 invasion.
February 28, 1968	Note from P. Shelest to CPSU Central Committee A note from P. Shelest to the CC CSPU regarding a suspicious incident relating to Czechoslovak unrest.
March 21, 1968	Memorandum from the Secretary of the Transcarpathian Oblast, Ukrainian CP about tensions in Czechoslovakia A report on a conversation between Yu. V. Il’nyts’kyi, Secretary of the Transcarpathian Oblast of the Ukrainian CP, and Jan Koscelanský, 1st Secretary of the KSC’s East Slovakia regional committee on the developing situation in Czechoslovakia.
April 23, 1968	Conversation with the Consul-General of the CSSR in Kyiv, J. Gorak B. BAKLANOV, Third Secretary of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, relates a conversation initiated by J. Gorak, the Czechoslovak Consul-General.
April 30, 1968	Transcarpathian Oblast First Secretary Yu. Ilnytskyi's Report to P. Shelest Yu. Ilnytskyi reports on his 29 April 1968 conversation with the first secretary of the KSC’s East Slovakia regional committee, Cde. Ján Koscelanský, on the on-going situation in Czechoslovakia.
May 14, 1968	KGB Lt. Col. A. Zhabchenko's Report to the Ukrainian SSR's Council of Ministers
May 12, 1968	Yu. Ilnytskyi Reports on Items from the Czechoslovak Media On Certain Items Featured in Czechoslovak Television Broadcasts and in the Newspaper ‘Rudé právo'.