XXV Congress of the CPSU in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Chairman of the State Council of the GDR Willi Stoph (left, foreground), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Erich Honecker (center, foreground), Secretary of the SED Central Committee for Security Paul Ferner (third from right, foreground), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the German Democratic Republic to the USSR Harry Ott (left, background) and delegates to the 25th Congress of the CPSU during a break between sessions in the foyer of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Viktor Velikzhanin, Valery Khristoforov/TASS