November 10, 2009

"Brother's Kiss" Brezhnev and Honecker restored to the Berlin Wall

Famous painting - "brotherly kiss" Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and his colleagues of the East by Erich Honecker - the longest restored section of the famous Berlin Wall, which was destroyed decades ago. However, fragments of the wall as a kind of edification of posterity, as well as historical monument, there are in Berlin so far.

As for the pictures in question, all who grew up in the Soviet Union, aware of the loving "dear Leonid Ilyich" and that he loved passionately - but only "as brothers" - to kiss her guests, the leaders of socialist countries member of the Warsaw Pact. On this account, there are many anecdotes and all sorts of jokes openly homosexual content.

The remnants of the Berlin Wall stretched for three quarters of a mile above the river Shpre that flows through the city, and are open gallery, called "East Side Gallery. The Berlin Wall is extremely popular with tourists, especially today, in the days when the 20 th anniversary of the fall (the wall was destroyed on Nov. 9, 1989). Since then, many artists depicted on the remains of wall paintings in the style of all kinds of graffiti.

According to the agency AP, recently the Government of Germany has spent about three millions of dollars to restore the wall to the very "historical gallery. In recent years, she was very pale, concrete places showered, paint faded, so many pictures just disappeared. But last year in order to restore them to their original form, in Berlin were invited about 90 artists from around the world, and restored the original paintings, said the gay magazine Advocate.

Gay.Ru
By Alexander Lopata

http://www.gay.ru/news/rainbow/2009/11/10-16721.htm