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The socialist fraternal kiss was a special form of greeting between socialist state leaders. The act demonstrated the special connection that exists between Communist countries, consisting of an embrace, along with a series of three kisses on alternate cheeks. [1] In rare cases, when the two leaders considered themselves exceptionally close ...
May 30, 2022 · The socialist fraternal kiss became famous via Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev, who were photographed exercising the ritual. 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 ...
Nov 8, 2022 · After going up to the official rostrum together and the Soviet leader delivered his speech, he turned to Eric Honecker, hugged, and then, to the surprise of the whole world and the delight of the photojournalists, the two leaders kissed each other for a long time. The moment was perfectly immortalized by the photographer Regis Bossu.
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. By Jan-Niklas Welling and Catarina Medeiros de Brito Pontes. “Mein Gott, hilf mir, diese tödliche ...
Apr 12, 2018 · 9 Mikhail Gorbachev (pictured greeting Honecker) may have ushered in a new era when he rose to lead the U.S.S.R., but the Soviet kiss was one custom that continued unchanged.
Erich Ernst Paul Honecker ( German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈhɔnɛkɐ]; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994) [7] was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany) from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. He held the posts of General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ...
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Nov 8, 2014 · This mural is a painted representation of the photograph of the Brezhnev-Honecker kiss that was captured by Bossu. The mural as graffiti is not done out of immediate reaction. Leonid Brezhnev had died in 1982. The German Democratic Republic had collapsed and reunited with West Germany. Erich Honecker was in exile and on the run.
