International relations

Berlin Mural

Artwork on a piece of the Berlin Wall. This depicts a kiss between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German leader Erich Honecker. The car they are in is crashing through the wall; it is a Trabant or “Trabi”, the most well-known type of car in the German Democratic Republic. Its crashing through the wall symbolizes liberation (which is why the license plate indicates 1989, the year the wall came down).

I believe this work is a remix of two other famous works, shown below.

The Kiss

Copyright © John Pham. Used with permission.

Trabant

Public domain image. Source: Wikipedia.

Submitted for Lens Day challenge “Travel.”

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