M.A. Suslov's visit to the GDR

German Democratic Republic. Berlin. First Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the CPSU Boris Ivanovich Aristov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the German Democratic Republic Pyotr Andreyevich Abrasimov, Commander-in-Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Yevgeny Filippovich Ivanovsky, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Ivan Vasilyevich Kapitonov, head of the Soviet delegation that arrived for the IX Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov and General Secretary of the SED Central Committee Erich Honecker (from left to right in the foreground) during the wreath-laying ceremony at the "Soldier-Liberator" monument in Treptower Park. Alexey Stuzhin/TASS