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My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love

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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. 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
1990 1
Medium
Graffiti 1
Location
East Side Gallery, Berlin, Germany 1
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Painting 1
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1. My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love (Wikipedia)
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    Painted in 1990
  • Infobox, type
    Graffiti
  • Infobox, museum
    East Side Gallery
  • Genre reference
    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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