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In 1992, the gallery was declared a historic monument by the Berlin city government, and has become one of the city's most visited tourist attractions. File photo
Artists, who painted the largest remaining section of the Berlin Wall in 1990, began Tuesday repairing their works.
In 1990, 118 artists from 21 countries decorated what is called the longest open-air art gallery. Since then it has been damaged by the weather, exhaust fumes, vandals, and souvenir-seeking tourists, BGNES reported.
The restoration work is expected to be completed in time for the 20-year anniversary of the fall of the wall in November.
In 1992, the gallery was declared a historic monument by the Berlin city government, and has become one of the city's most visited tourist attractions, BGNES reminded.
The Russian artist, Dmitri Vrubel, who painted the famous image of East German leader Erich Honecker kissing his Soviet counterpart Leonid Brezhnev, however, said that he would not paint the same image again.
The Berlin Wall was built by communist authorities, and divided the city for 28 years. Its builders described it as an "anti-fascist protective barrier", and scores of people were killed by East German sentries as they tried to escape across it from east to west.
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28 years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
On August 13th, we celebrate the anniversary of the rise of the Berlin Wall, writes BGNES.
The Soviet Union's last leader Mikhail Gorbachev has called on both Brussels and Washington to improve relations with Moscow despite tensions over Ukraine.
"On the day the wall came downThey threw the locks onto the groundAnd with glasses high we raised a cry For freedom had arrivedOn the day the wall came downThe Ship of Fools had finally ran agroundPromises lit up the night like paper doves in flight.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that tensions between Russia and the West over the Ukraine crisis have put the world "on the brink of a new Cold War.
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