XXV Congress of the CPSU in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Gustav Husak, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Erich Honecker, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Le Duan, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party Edward Gierek (from left to right, foreground), General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party Alvaro Barreirinhas Cunhal, Chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic Willi Stoph, Chairman of the German Communist Party Herbert Mies and member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the PUWP, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Polish People's Republic Piotr Jaroszewicz (from left to right, background) in the presidium during the opening of the 25th Congress of the CPSU in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Vasily Egorov, Viktor Koshevoy, Vladimir Musaelyan, Valentin Sobolev/TASS