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This is the conversation held between General Nikolai Leonov and a group of academics and researchers from the Centro de Estudios Públicos. Summarizing and expanding on the topics of his lecture at the CEP the previous day, here General Leonov gives his opinion on the current situation in Russia, the outbreaks of nationalism and the causes of the breakup of the USSR. He refers to the Soviet authorities’ opinion of the Chilean Armed Forces during the government of Salvador Allende, the breaking-off of relations between the USSR and Chile after the military coup and the presumptive participation of the USSR in three crucial episodes during the military government in Chile. He illustrates by anecdote the way Soviet Intelligence operated and gives his thoughts on the Cuban regime, Cuban-Soviet relations and the unfolding of the Cuban Missiles Crisis (1962), as well as Soviet foreign policy in the Middle East.