Signing of the Soviet-Czechoslovak declaration in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. October 27, 1969. President of Czechoslovakia Ludvik Svoboda, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Gustav Husak, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (from left to right in the foreground) during the signing ceremony of the joint Soviet-Czechoslovak statement in the Grand Kremlin Palace. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS