Celebrating May 9 in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR, First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergei Fedorovich Akhromeev, Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergei Leonidovich Sokolov, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Andreevich Gromyko (from left to right) on the podium of the Mausoleum of V.I. Lenin during the military parade on Red Square to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS