Yesterday and today : contemporaries report on the progress of German - Soviet friendship

Our publication was prepared jointly by Verlag Zeit im Bild in the German Democratic Republic and the Publishing House of the Novosti Press Agency in the Soviet Union. It is a document which reports on the history of German-Soviet relations from the 1917 Great October Socialist Revolution up to the present. The contributions published were written at various times in the course of the last half century. Their authors are not silent observers standing aside from the happenings but active participants in the shaping of important events. This book therefore rightly has a documentary significance. As a collection, the contributions represent a broad panorama and bear witness to the historically important development friendship. a

Fraternal and indestructible relations between the German Democratic Republic and the Soviet Union have arisen out of the immortal deeds of the defenders and champions of Soviet-German friendship. This serves the welfare of the present and coming generations of the peoples of the USSR and the GDR; it is an important contribution to the maintenance of peace in Europe and throughout the world and thus benefits all peace-loving people.