International Conference of Communist and Workers' Parties in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. June 5, 1969. Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, deputy of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic Hermann Axen, head of the Central Party Control Commission, member of the Politburo of the SED Central Committee Hermann Matern, First Secretary of the SED, deputy of the People's Chamber of the GDR, member of the Politburo of the SED, Chairman of the State Council of the GDR Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht and member of the Politburo of the SED Central Committee, member of the National Defense Council, Secretary of Security of the SED Central Committee Erich Ernst Paul Honecker (from left to right in the foreground) during a meeting of the International Conference of Communist and Workers' Parties in the Kremlin. Valentin Sobolev/TASS