The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) took place on March 30--April 9, 1971 in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Chile Luis Corvalan makes a speech. In the congress's Presidium (from right to left): member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Suslov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Alexei Kosygin, Chairman of the Party Control Committee at the CPSU Central Committee Arvid Pelshe, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev and Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium Nikolai Podgorny.
