Minutes of Discussion of Report by the Supreme UAF Commander at the PCC Meeting3 Dec 1978 |
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These minutes of discussions at the 1978 Political Consultative Committee (PCC) meeting relate to the report by the supreme commander of the United Armed Forces (UAF), Viktor Kulikov. Nicolae Ceauşescu, general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party, expresses his disagreement with this report, stating that in light of détente, further armament is not necessary. According to him, military expenditures must be reduced in order to ease the economic development of Socialist countries. The East German, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Polish, and Soviet party leaders express their unanimous acceptance of the report presented by Kulikov.
Collection: Party Leaders
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Document Type:
Memorandum of Conversation Language of Original Document: Romanian Number of Pages: 15 Cold War Period: 1970s Persons: Ceauşescu, Kulikov, Honecker, Husák, Zhivkov, Kádár, Gierek, Brezhnev |
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Document Source: National Central Historical Archives (ANIC), Bucharest Call Number: Fund CC of RCP, Chancellary Section, File 94/ 1978 First Published at: Mircea Munteanu (ed.), Romania and the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1989, vol. 2, (Washington: Cold War International History Project, 2002), pp. 191-206. |
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