Since the Berlin Wall, the most famous graffiti erased.

With the Berlin Wall, the most famous graffiti erased, which is depicted kissing the former secretary general of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev and East German leader Erich Honekkera. This was on Saturday announced the German edition of Deutsche Welle.
Eliminating graffiti "Lord, Help me survive the death of this love", was held in the large-scale restoration, marking the 20th anniversary of the demolition of the Berlin Wall.
Artist Dmitry Vrubel, painted a famous graffiti, said he was amazed when they saw a net plot of the wall, which formerly was his drawing. According to him, the removal of copyright was a violation of human figure artists.
Guide Art Gallery East Side Gallery, for its part, stated that all the artists who participated in razrisovke walls were previously notified that their work could be erased during the restoration. Vrubel also was invited to return to Berlin and to draw the same graffiti, highlighted in the East Side Gallery. In addition, the gallery sent him a check for 3 thousand euros as compensation for removal from the wall of graffiti.
Vrubel meanwhile reported that the East Side Gallery is indeed informed him of the planned activities of the wall, but there was only minor cosmetic work. Commenting on the proposal to go back and draw another graffiti artist said that it will have quite a different picture, does not have anything in common with the famous "kiss and Honekkera Brezhnev."
Plans to renovate part of the Berlin Wall, which has been preserved after its demolition in 1990, became known in 2007. In doing so, the restorers have assured the public that well-known graffiti, painted in 1990 by 118 artists from 22 countries will be saved and restored, with the participation of the authors of the drawings.