book about his time spent in Honecker's service, denied the claims. Honecker had three grandchildren from his daughter Sonja, who had married the Chilean-born exile Leonardo Yáñez Betancourt: Roberto (b. 1974), Mariana (b. 1985), who died in 1988 at the age of two leaving Honecker himself heartbroken, and Vivian (b. 1988). Roberto's origins are debated; he is claimed to be the illegally adopted son of Heidi Stein, Dirk Schiller, born on 13 June 1975 in Görlitz, who disappeared in March 1979, due to alleged physical similarities between Dirk and Yáñez, Stein suspecting that her son might have been kidnapped at three years old by Stasi agents for Honecker's younger daughter. Honecker's daughter divorced Yáñez in 1993. She and her two surviving children still live in Santiago. Honours and awards : Hero of the German Democratic Republic (twice) Hero of Labour Patriotic Order of Merit (Honor clasp, in Gold) Order of Karl Marx (five times) Order of the Banner of Labor : Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin (thrice) Order of the October Revolution Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" Other countries: Grand Star of the Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (Austria) Order of Georgi Dimitrov (Bulgaria) Order of José Martí (Cuba) Order of Playa Girón (Cuba) Order of Klement Gottwald (Czechoslovakia) Grand Cross of the White Rose of Finland (Finland) Order of Augusto Cesar Sandino, 1st class (Nicaragua) Order of the "Victory of Socialism" (Romania) Order of Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam) Olympic Order (International Olympic Committee) In popular culture Dmitri Vrubel's 1990 mural on the Berlin Wall My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love, depicting a socialist "fraternal kiss" between Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev, became known around the world. A traffic signal inspired by Honecker wearing a jaunty straw hat was used in parts of East Germany (Ost-Ampelmännchen) and has become a symbol of Ostalgie. Notes References Further reading Bryson, Phillip J., and Manfred Melzer eds. The end of the East German economy: from Honecker to reunification (Palgrave Macmillan, 1991). Childs, David, ed. Honecker's Germany (London: Taylor & Francis, 1985). Collier Jr, Irwin L. "GDR economic policy during the honecker era." Eastern European Economics 29.1 (1990): 5–29. Dennis, Mike. Social and Economic Modernization in Eastern Germany from Honecker to Kohl (Burns & Oates, 1993). Dennis, Mike. "The East German Ministry of State