E. Gierek's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexey Nikolaevich Kosygin, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the PPR Petr Yaroshevich, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, head of the party and state delegation of the PPR First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PUWP Edward Gierek, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreevich Suslov (from left to right in the foreground) before the start of negotiations in the Kremlin. Eduard Pesov/TASS