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My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love, a graffiti painting on the Berlin Wall depicting Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing East German leader Erich Honecker. The socialist fraternal kiss was a special form of greeting between socialist state leaders.
May 30, 2022 · 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.
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Nov 8, 2022 · ne 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.
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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.
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.
