Visit by General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) on its 40th anniversary. October 6-10, 1989. During a reception in the Palace of the Republic: Mikhail Gorbachev and General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Central Committee and Chairman of the GDR State Council Erich Honecker (right).