My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love, a graffiti painting on the Berlin Wall depicting Soviet statesman Leonid Brezhnev kissing East German statesman Erich Honecker. The socialist fraternal kiss was a special form of greeting between socialist state officials.

2022年5月30日 · During the festivities of the 30th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic of East Germany in 1979, photographer Regis Bossu was able to take a photograph of the decisive moment wherein Leonid Brezhnev and President Erich Honecker were practicing a socialist fraternal kiss.

The painting depicts Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker in a socialist fraternal kiss, reproducing a photograph taken in 1979 during the 30th anniversary celebration of the foundation of the German Democratic Republic.

At the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the GDR, heads of states Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker ritually performed the socialist fraternal kiss. The snapshot became the East Side Gallery's most photographed artwork.

General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev often greeted other leaders with the centuries-old Russian tradition of triple kisses, but not everybody enjoyed it, and some did their best to escape his...

The two men depicted in it are Leonid Brezhnev, the General Secretary of the Soviet Union at the time, and Erich Honecker, the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of the GDR. The act the two characters are engaged in was a kind of a socialist greeting.

The socialist fraternal kiss catapulted into global consciousness in 1979, thanks to a now-famous photograph by Regis Bossu. The image captured Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev, leaders of East Germany and the USSR respectively, locked in a mouth-to-mouth kiss during the 30th anniversary celebrations of the East German Republic.

2021年2月21日 · The ‘deadly love’ of the title both literally and figuratively frames the depicted fraternal kiss, activating the painting in an ironic, satirical form.

When artist Dmitri Vrubel painted Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker locked in a kiss of socialist brotherhood on the Berlin Wall he created the most famous mural of the Cold War. On the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, he recalls the making of an iconic image

2020年12月1日 · One of the most famous kisses in history was between the communist leader Erich Honecker and the Soviet Leonid Brezhnev. The world-famous event took place during the 30th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic in 1979.