The mural was created Friday by artist Mindaugas Bonanu at the barbecue restaurant Keule Ruke, according to the Associated Press.
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A small Lithuanian restaurant garnered global attention Saturday thanks to its 6-foot mural showing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin locking lips. “We saw similarities between the two heroes (Trump and Putin)”. The mural is on the outside of the Keule Ruke restaurant, which is Lithuanian for “Smoking Pig”.
The world-renowned street art project in Berlin draws its inspiration from a photograph of communist leader Erich Honecker and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. “They both have huge egos, and it’s amusing to see they are getting along well”, he said.
“It seems we have a new Cold War, and America may have a president who seeks friendship with Russia”, Ceckauskus told the Agence France-Presse.
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the fraternal kiss between the two leaders was depicted in graffiti on the side of the wall.
Putin and Trump are known for exchanging mutual admiration statements, with the Russian leader calling Trump “a very colorful person, talented without any doubt” and Trump saying it was “a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond”. In a statement sent to us, Keule Ruke said that the artists behind the mural were “predicting that if Russian Federation and the U.S. would ever make out, it would happen in the Baltic states. with tongues or with tanks”.
Relations between the USA and Russia have been frosty for years, but Trump has said he believes he’d “get along very well” with the Russian president.
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A child walks past a graffiti depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, on the walls of a bar in the old town in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, May 14, 2016.
