My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love, also known as the Fraternal Kiss, is a street art mural painted in 1990 by the artist Dmitri Vrubel on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall in Germany. It depicts Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German leader Erich Honecker sharing a socialist fraternal kiss, based on a 1979 photograph taken to mark the German Democratic Republic's thirtieth anniversary. The mural has become one of the most recognized images of Berlin Wall street art. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Year Created LocationEast Side Gallery, Berlin, Germany 1 Medium
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Painted in 1990
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My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love, also known as the Fraternal Kiss, is a street art mural painted in 1990 by the artist Dmitri Vrubel on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall in Germany.
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My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love, sometimes referred to as the Fraternal Kiss, is a street art mural by Dmitri Vrubel on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall, Germany. Painted in 1990, it has become one of the best known
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