E. Honecker's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Chairman of the State Council of the GDR Erich Honecker and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, who was awarded the Hero of the German Democratic Republic and the Great Star of Friendship of Peoples Order on the occasion of his seventieth birthday (left to right in the foreground) during the award ceremony in the Vladimir Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Eduard Pesov/TASS