Ceremonial meeting dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the formation of the GDR

German Democratic Republic. Berlin. October 6, 1969. First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Central Committee Gustav Husak, Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) Central Committee Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the SED Central Committee Walter Ulbricht, President of the National Council of the National Front of the GDR Erich Correns, First Secretary of the PUWP Central Committee Wladyslaw Gomulka, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the GDR Willi Stoph and First Secretary of the HSWP Central Committee Janos Kadar (from left to right in the foreground) in the Werner-Seelenbinder Hall at a ceremonial meeting of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the State Council and the Council of Ministers of the GDR, and the National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the formation of the GDR. Vasily Yegorov/TASS