L. Corvalan's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile Luis Corvalan, who received political asylum in the USSR, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko and L. Corvalan's wife Lily Castillo Riquelme (left to right 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. Oleg Ivanov/TASS