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My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love
My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fraternal Kiss (), is a graffiti painting on the Berlin wall by Dmitri Vrubel, one of the best known of the Berlin wall graffiti paintings. Created in 1990, the painting depicts Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker in a fraternal embrace, reproducing a photograph that captured the moment in 1979 during the 30th anniversary celebration of the foundation of the German Democratic Republic.
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on the Berlin Wall "My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love", depicting a socialist "fraternal kiss" between Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev, became known around the world.
Further reading.
- Bryson, Phillip J., and Manfred Melzer eds. "The end of the East German economy: from Honecker to reunification" (Palgrave Macmillan, 1991).
- Childs, David, ed. "Honecker's Germany" (London: Taylor & Francis, 1985).
- Collier Jr