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My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love has become one of the best known works of graffiti art on the Berlin Wall. According to Anthony Read and David Fisher, the painting is "particularly striking, with a sharp, satirical edge."
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May 30, 2022 · “My God, help me to survive this deadly love”. Some Kremlinologists studying the USSR paid close attention to whether the fraternal embrace was exchanged between Communist leaders. The omission of the customary embrace is taken to indicate a lower level of relations between the two countries.
My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love in 1991. AB: How did you get the idea of putting up graffiti on the Berlin Wall? DV: A girl I met in Paris came to Moscow and gave me a photograph of Brezhnev and Honecker kissing. She said, “Look at this cool picture. You have to paint it.”
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.
My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love (1990), sometimes referred to as the Fraternal Kiss (German: Bruderkuss), is a Berlin Wall - painting by Dmitri Vrubel, depicting the kissing communist leaders Leonid Breshnew and Erich Honecker.
Feb 21, 2021 · Help me to survive] in black text on a red background, then layered over the bottom in much larger red text is среди этой смертной любви [among this deadly love]. Vrubel thus juxtaposes his...
Aug 15, 2022 · The graffiti artist painted My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love (1990), which shows Leonid Brezhnev embracing Erich Honecker, just months after the Wall was opened up. Vrubel himself had only just arrived in East Berlin from Moscow, then aged thirty.
