05/02/2018 · 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 kiss itself really wasn’t supposed to inspire any romantic notions – it ...

28/03/2009 · The stolen kiss: The Berlin Wall mural is erased ... which exhibits the works of some 117 artists from 21 countries on a 1,316 metre section of …

28/03/2009 · Berlin wall''s famous Honecker-Brezhnev kiss painting erased Mohit Joshi 28 March 2009 Berlin, Mar 28 : The famous painting on the Berlin Wall, which depicted the kiss between East German leader Erich Honecker and his Soviet counterpart Leonid Brezhnev, has been erased as a part of a clean-up of the surviving sections of the wall.

27/03/2009 · Officials Erase Historic Berlin Wall Mural. One of the most famous paintings on the Berlin Wall, depicting Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his East German counterpart Erich Honecker, has ...

The Kiss painting is one of the most famous artworks on the Berlin Wall and the East Side Gallery. It was painted in 1990 by Dmitri Vrubel shortly after the collapse of the East German regime and is still a symbol for the fall of the Berlin Wall. The exact title of the wall painting is: "My God, help me to survive this deadly love".

The fraternal kiss became famous via Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev, who were photographed exercising the ritual. The photograph became widespread and it was subsequently reproduced into a graffiti painting on the Berlin Wall named My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love. References