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Soviet soldiers waving good-bye. On December 5, 1979 the first group of Soviet military units began to be withdrawn from the city of Lutherstadt- Wittenberg as Soviet troops started to pull out from Central Europe.
- Categories: Unrest, Conflicts & War, Politics
- Location: Germany
- Event date: 01.12.1979
- Date published: 23.12.2010
- Author: Yuryi Abramochkin
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: 79-16141, 35 mm film
- Media: JPEG, 5367x3543px, 2.3Mb