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DMITRY VRUBEL

Dmitri Vrubel (born July 14, 1960, died August 13, 2022) was a russian painter best known for his iconic mural on the Berlin Wall, "My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love".
 
Dmitry Vrubel, Mein Gott, hilf mir, diese tödliche Liebe zu überleben, 2009 © Stiftung Berliner Mauer, photographer: Günther Schaefer
(Dmitry Vrubel, Mein Gott, hilf mir, diese tödliche Liebe zu überleben, 2009 © Stiftung Berliner Mauer, photographer: Günther Schaefer)

This painting depicted the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German leader Erich Honecker kissing, and became a symbol of the end of the Cold War.