Brezhnev announces force reduction in E Germany
- Title
- Brezhnev announces force reduction in E Germany
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 8 Oct 1979
- Year of production
- 1979
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- Duration
- 00:00:29
- Description
- Interview with a male speaker (not identified) about an announcement by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in East Berlin that the USSR would withdraw up to 20,000 of its troops and 1,000 tanks from East Germany during the next 12 months. He also offered to reduce the number of nuclear medium-range rockets in the Soviet arsenal aimed at Western Europe if the North Atlantic Alliance refrains from any new deployment of similar U.S. rockets in Western Europe. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- None Identified
- Keywords
- USSR; International relations; Nuclear weapons; Arms control; Nuclear disarmament; NATO; Heads of state; Leonid Brezhnev; Disarmament; Germany FR; German DR; President
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