Marco della Cava

USA TODAY

A small Lithuanian restaurant garnered international attention Saturday thanks to its 6-foot mural showing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin locking lips.

The mural outside Keule Ruke — or Smoking Pig — eatery in the capital city of Vilnius is a nod to a famous 1979 image of two Communist leaders, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East Germany's Erich Hoenecker, in the same pose. Men kissing each other on the lips is a common greeting in Slavic countries.

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Smoking Pig owner Dominykas Ceckauskas said that the similarity of two images is not unintentional. “We think that the border now is not in Berlin, but somewhere here in the Baltic states, between (the) East and the West," he told the Associated Press.

Lithuania is one of the Baltic nations that for decades was under Soviet rule. The nation gained its independence, along with other countries such as Ukraine, after the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.

Ceckauskas added that the painting is "an ironic view of what can be expected" when the two leaders meet. "They seem to get along pretty well," he added.

Last December, Putin called Trump "bright and talented." A day later, Trump returned the compliment, saying, "He's running his country and at least he's a leader, unlike what we have in this country."

Trump has all but secured the GOP's nomination to run in this fall's presidential election, while Hillary Clinton is the Democratic front-runner.

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