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1956: Soviet Embassy in Poland Alerts CPSU to Rising Anti-Soviet Sentiments in Polish Press

1956 was a difficult year for the Soviet Union. February saw Khrushchev’s Secret Speech, and within months, the Warsaw Pact nations were made aware of Stalin’s overall shabby behavior, to put it lightly. Poland was particularly vocal through its media in badmouthing Soviet culture, fashion, and life in particular. On 26 September 1956, Soviet EmbassyContinueContinue reading “1956: Soviet Embassy in Poland Alerts CPSU to Rising Anti-Soviet Sentiments in Polish Press”

1971 KGB Memo Alerts CPSU to Planned Western Anti-Soviet Campaign

On 13 January, 1971, KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov issued a memorandum to the Central Committee of the CPSU on the intensification of the activities of Moscow correspondents of foreign media to collect information from “antisocial elements” (Andrei Sakharov, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in particular) during preparations for the 24th Congress of the CPSU. TheContinueContinue reading “1971 KGB Memo Alerts CPSU to Planned Western Anti-Soviet Campaign”

Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 28

27 October 1962 / Order from Malinovskiy to Pliyev forbidding use of nuclear weapons without order from Moscow TOP SECRET (when filled in) Reproduction prohibited To TsK KPSS, Comrade A.K. SEROV COPY OF OUTGOING TELEGRAM No. 20076                         TROSTNIK                 to Comrade PAVLOV Re: No. 8/154             It is expressly confirmed that employing nuclear weapons fromContinueContinue reading “Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 28”

Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 25

27 October 1962 / Malinovskiy’s order to Pliyev to dispatch ALEKSANDROVSK TOP SECRET (when filled in) To TsK KPSS, Comrade A.K. SEROV COPY OF OUTGOING TELEGRAM No. 20109                         TROSTNIK                 to Comrade PAVLOV Re: No. 8/162             ALEKSANDROVSK is to be dispatched to the Soviet Union under escort by motorship BRATSK.             Report when sheContinueContinue reading “Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 25”

Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 23

27 October 1962 / Directive from the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee in response to PAVLOV’s enciphered cable Communist Party of the Soviet Union CENTRAL COMMITTEE TOP SECRET No. P62/P To Comrades Khrushchev, Malinovskiy Extract from record No. 62 of the meeting of the Presidium of the TsK KPSS from 27 October 1962 TelegramContinueContinue reading “Cuban Missile Crisis, Document 23”