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Pomogí mne výzhit' sredí étoy smértnoy lyubví; German: Mein Gott, hilf mir, diese tödliche Liebe zu überleben), sometimes referred to as the Fraternal Kiss (German: Bruderkuss), is a graffiti painting by Dmitri Vrubel on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall. Painted in 1990, it has become one of the best known pieces of Berlin Wall ...
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.
It was inspired by a photograph captured by photographer Regis Bossu depicting a socialist fraternal kiss between the leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker in 1979, during a celebration of the 30 years of the GDR. [3] In 2009, the painting was removed by the authorities as part of a cleaning effort in order to have it repainted by Vrubel ...
The Berlin Wall fell 27 years ago Wednesday. The imposing wall that divided East and West Germany was constructed in August 1961, and began to fall November 9, 1989. The wall, also known as the ...
One quiet moment Harris captured was of an elderly man in East Berlin, carrying shopping bags filled with potatoes, just two days before the wall fell. “He would have been 65-70, a war veteran ...
The gallery is, for the most part, located on the western wall, which closed off the border area to East Berlin. This wall, facing inwards towards West Berlin, was much thicker and more fortified than its outward-facing counterpart. However, a small portion of the so-called "hinterland" wall has managed to survive, despite its weaker structure ...
Satellite image of Berlin, with the Wall's location marked in yellow West and East Berlin borders overlaying a current road map The Berlin Wall ( German : Berliner Mauer , pronounced [bɛʁˌliːnɐ ˈmaʊɐ] ⓘ ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German ...
Manila – on 8 October 2015, a segment of the wall was installed at National Museum of the Philippines.The segment was a gift to the Philippines from the City of Berlin, but had remained unclaimed in Berlin for a decade before its installation which coincided with the 25th anniversary of German reunification.