We saw this portrait at the Checkpoint Charlie’s museum. It was actually a sign of communist solidarity, performed whenever the Soviet bloc's rulers met in public. Really strange!Apparently this was a standard greeting between members of the Communist elite. This image is one of Leonid Brezhnev, head of the Soviet communist party, and Erich Honecker, the leader of communist East Germany. When this photo was taken in 1979 on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of German Democratic Republic (East Germany), it sent a shiver to the Western world that the East German leader will go all the way to toe with Soviet communist aspiration during the cold war.
