A meeting of the Political Consultative Committee of the Warsaw Pact states (October 22-23, 1985). From left: Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Chairman of the GDR Council of State, Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the CPSU CC, a member of the USSR Supreme Soviet's Presidium, Todor Zhivkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Chairman of the State Council of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, and Nicolae Ceauşescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party, President of the Socialist Republic of Romania.
