Supporting a just cause (1981)

View of the Moscow Kremlin and Red Square.

Landing of the plane with the delegation of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on October 19, 1981. The plane finishes taxiing.

The Palestinian delegation is greeted at Sheremetyevo Airport.

Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee B.N. Ponomarev greets the head of the delegation Yasser Arafat.

Views of Kalininsky and Kutuzovsky avenues.

Views of the Moscow Kremlin.

Brezhnev L.I. welcomes Arafat in the Kremlin, here is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR A.A. Gromyko.

Brezhnev, Gromyko and Ponomarev greet members of the Palestinian delegation in the Kremlin.

Arafat, Brezhnev, Gromyko and Ponomarev during a meeting in the Kremlin (panorama).

Brezhnev, Gromyko, Arafat and members of the PLO Executive Committee Farouk Kaddoumi and Abu Mazen during negotiations in the Kremlin.

Panorama of Red Square (top).

Lenin's Mausoleum on Red Square.

People entering the mausoleum.

The PLO delegation, led by Arafat, approaches the mausoleum.

PLO representatives lay a wreath at the mausoleum.

Arafat adjusts the ribbons of the wreath and stands at attention in front of the mausoleum.

A wreath laid at the mausoleum.

Faces of the Palestinian delegation.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin Wall.

The Hero Cities Memorial.

Yasser Arafat and members of the Palestinian delegation lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Arafat gives a military salute during the minute of silence.

Faces of the Palestinian delegation.

The Eternal Flame burns.

Pedestrians and traffic on the streets of Moscow.

Views of the Column Hall of the House of Unions during the 9th International Congress of Journalists.

Arafat delivers a speech to congress participants.

Faces of journalists from developing countries.

Newsreel: destroyed buildings in Palestine, women among the rubble.

The face of an Israeli officer.

Israeli soldiers in position.

The Israeli flag on a flagpole.

Palestinians displaced by Israeli bombing.

Smoke from a fire above a minaret.

Arafat continues his speech at the 9th International Congress of Journalists.

Congress participants applaud.

Arafat on the podium.

Arafat speaking from the rostrum of the UN General Assembly in 1974. The General Assembly hall.

Arafat with Fidel Castro during his stay in Cuba.

Arafat meeting at an airport in Turkey.

Arafat gives an interview to journalists in Spain.

Arafat at a meeting of the World Parliament of Peoples in Bulgaria.

View of part of the meeting hall.

Photograph of Arafat raising the PLO flag during the opening of the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Moscow in 1976. View of the CMEA building in Moscow and the adjacent block (top).

Reporters are filming Yasser Arafat's press conference at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Center.

A panoramic view of the press center hall.

Yasser Arafat, sitting on the podium, answers journalists' questions.

Journalists and cameramen are in the hall.

A view of the press center hall.

The faces of journalists asking Arafat questions.

Journalists and cameramen are in the hall.

Journalists are taking notes in notepads and on dictaphones.

Yasser Arafat speaks about relations between the PLO and the USSR, journalists are in the hall.

The face of one of the journalists.

A view of part of the hall and the podium of the press conference.

The faces of the journalists.

Yasser Arafat answers another question.

A Palestinian landscape (panorama).

The faces of PLO fighters.

A unit of armed PLO fighters is sent on a combat mission.