Awarding of the Order of Karl Marx to M.A. Suslov in the Kremlin

USSR. Moscow. Secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee Ivan Vasilyevich Kapitonov, Boris Nikolayevich Ponomarev, Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko, Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, awarded the Order of Karl Marx, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the German Democratic Republic to the USSR Harry Ott and Assistant to the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Viktorovich Rusakov (from left to right in the foreground) during the award ceremony in the Kremlin. Eduard Pesov/TASS