A Quote by Helmut Schmidt

Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.

Helmut Schmidt

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Afterwards Brezhnev Decision Deploy Did Enormous Importance Political Produce Understand

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Helmut Schmidt
German - Statesman
December 23, 1918 - November 10, 2015

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