Reception in honor of foreign delegations of the XXV Congress of the CPSU in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, head of the party and state delegation of the Polish People's Republic, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party Edward Gierek, delivering a speech (from left to right in the foreground), General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (from right in the background), Chairman of the Party Control Committee of the CPSU Central Committee Arwid Janowicz Pelše, Chairman of the State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, Secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Fedorovich Katushev, Vladimir Ivanovich Dolgikh, Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko and Fedor Davydovich Kulakov (from left to right in the background) during a gala reception in the Kremlin, hosted by the CPSU Central Committee in honor of the foreign delegations that arrived at the official invitation to participate in the 25th Congress of the CPSU. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS