There are many famous kisses in the history of photography - lovers outside the Hôtel de Ville by Robert Doisneau, Diana and Charles on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, Eisenstaedt's strangers embracing in Times Square on VJ Day.⁠ When Régis Bossu captured the symbolic Socialist fraternal kiss between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German President Erich Honecker on this day in 1979, the Sygma photojournalist produced a picture which was to enter the canon and take on a life of its own.⁠ For the full story behind the image from Bossu himself, take a look over gettyarchive.⁠ 📷: Régis Bossu/Sygma via Getty Images | 5 October 1989⁠ | #gettyarchive ⁠ ⁠ #regisbossu #sygma #1979 #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #brezhnev #honecker #socialistfraternalkiss #dmitrivrubel #thekiss #socialistkiss #fraternalkiss #mygodhelpmetosurvivethisdeadlylove #berlinwall #GDR #coldwar #politicalhistory #germanhistory #soviethistory #photojournalism #reportage #thedecisivemoment #archivephoto #photoarc...