B. Karmal's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Babrak Karmal (from left to right in the foreground), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Andrei Andreevich Gromyko and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov (from left to right in the background) during the welcoming ceremony at Vnukovo Airport. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS