The socialist fraternal kiss/embrace is a special form of greeting between leaders of Communist countries. The greeting usually consist of both cheek kisses and embracing one another but mouth kisses are rare. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and East German leader Erich Honecker exchange kisses after Brezhnev was honored with the title “Hero of the German Democratic Republic” and the “Karl Marx Medal" during the 30th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic of East Germany in 1979. The famous fraternal kiss between Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker  went viral through magazine spreads around the world. They marketed the photo with the famous caption “My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love.” There were many leaders that used this ritual but this one in particular received massive attention because photographer Regis Bossu caught it at the right moment. The two men seemed to kiss passionately in the photograph which caused the public to react.
Anthony Blunt had made an appearance to this event after laying low from the public after newly elected prime mister  Margaret Thatcher outed him for being the fourth man in the Cambridge five men spy ring. During World War II he leaked information to the Soviet Union betraying his people. He was originally apart of MI5(Military intelligence, section 5) but after the announcement of his betrayal to Britain he got his knighthood taken away. He later became a famous art historian post-war. Blunt was recruited by Guy Burgess to the NKVD ( People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, former Soviet Union under Stalin) as a spy in 1934 after he visited the Soviet Union in 1933. Blunt said in his public confession that it was Burgess who converted him to the Soviet cause, after both had left Cambridge. Since he confessed in 1964 he was offered immunity from prosecution because he confessed to being a Soviet spy. He was also a homosexual and during that time it was crime. He was laying low out of public eye after 1979 because it was publicly announced that he was a traitor. He shocked everyone by showing up to this event!