Awarding of S.M. Shtemenko at the GDR Embassy in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. May 1970. Ambassador of the German Democratic Republic to the USSR Horst Bittner and First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces, Chief of Staff of the Joint Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact, General of the Army Sergei Matveyevich Shtemenko, who was awarded the medal "For Brotherhood in Arms", (from left to right) during the award ceremony at the GDR embassy. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Vitaly Sozinov/TASS