Berlin Wall youngsters. Another border crossing to the south may have been opened earlier. An account by Heinz Schäfer indicates that he also acted independently and ordered the opening of the gate at Waltersdorf-Rudow a couple of hours earlier. This may explain reports of East Berliners appearing in West Berlin earlier than the opening of the Bornholmer Straße border crossing. The fall of the Berlin Wall () began the evening of 9 November 1989 and continued over the following days and weeks, with people nicknamed (wall woodpeckers) using various tools to chip off souvenirs, demolishing lengthy parts in the process, and creating
The Fall of Berlin (film) in 1918", which depicted Stalin as Vladimir Lenin's most devout disciple; and to "The Vow", in which he is chosen as Lenin's heir and takes an oath to keep his legacy. In "The Fall of Berlin", Lenin has no impact on the plot. Instead of being the state founder's successor, Stalin's legitimacy was now based on his leadership of the USSR during the war. Denise Youngblood wrote that although not the first to portray Stalin as "war hero in chief" – this was already done in pictures like "The Battle of Stalingrad" – "The Fall of Berlin" elevated him to