On August 23, Czechoslovak President Ludvik Svoboda flew to Moscow for negotiations with the Russians, joining reform leaders who had been arrested immediately after the invasion. The caption of this photo is in Czech, Slovak and Russian:
"Ludvik Svoboda, President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, in Moscow. Moscow residents welcome comrades Ludvik Svoboda, Leonid Brezhnev, Alexej Kosygin and Nikolaj Podgornij in the streets of the capital."