# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B3PFon6g-9W
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16447184-gettyimages-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/8c7dbe37ca.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-10-05T12:00:46.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

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 #photoarchive #historyphoto #historyinphotos #gettyimages

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