title: Relations between the USSR and Latin America by the view of soviet diplomat Yuri Pavlov
abstract: The article examines a historical source of personal origin – an interview with former Soviet diplomat Yuri Ivanovich Pavlov, given by him in 1999 to the US National Security Archive. Diplomats are the guides of the state's foreign policy. Their role has been high at all times, it became especially important during the Cold War, when the fate of the whole world depended on the activities of diplomats of two antagonistic blocs – NATO and the ATS. If such sources from NATO countries are presented 
journal: Latinskaia Amerika