General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, and Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee and Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, and member of the Politburo and Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Yegor Ligachyov, from left to right, at the rostrum of the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square on May 1, 1989.
