First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Erich Honecker (right) and Chairman of the GDR Council of Ministers Willi Stoph (center) with participants in a solemn meeting of the CPSU Central Committee, the USSR Supreme Soviet and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses, Moscow. December 21, 1972.
