Saddam Sought Soviet Help in ’91

A frustrated Saddam Hussein pleaded with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for diplomatic assistance as the Operation Desert Storm ground battle began in 1991, reveal newly declassified records from tIraqi archives. The records—part of a huge archive containing millions of documents and thousands of hours of video footage captured after…

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Saddam Sought Soviet Help in ’91

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