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. Meeting at the airport (from left to right): General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Central Committee and Chairman of the GDR State Council Erich Honecker and Mikhail Gorbachev with wife Raisa.