L. Corvalan's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile Luis Corvalan, who received political asylum in the USSR, and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev (from right to left in the foreground) during a welcoming ceremony at Vnukovo airport. L. Corvalan, arrested after the military coup in Chile, was released from prison as a result of an exchange for Soviet political prisoner Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky. Eduard Pesov/TASS