History of the Berlin S-Bahn History of the Berlin S-Bahn The Berlin S-Bahn began on 8 August 1924 with the first section from Stettiner Vorortbahnhof to Bernau using steam locomotives. On 13 August 1961 it was broken up when the Berlin Wall was built, resulting in two sections: the eastern part and the western part. The western part experienced a massive strike which resulted in closure of several stations, after declining use. Attempts were made to reopen at various times but in the end, only three lines were finally opened after the strike. Since 9 November 1989, when the Berlin Wall was opened, the Berlin
The Fall of Berlin (film) the epitome of Stalin's cult of personality in cinema: Denise Youngblood wrote "it was impossible to go further" in the "veneration" of him; Philip Boobbyer claimed the cult reached "extraordinary proportions" with its release; Lars Karl opined it "stood above any other part of the cult"; Slavoj Žižek regarded it as the "supreme case of the Stalinist epic" Nikolas Hüllbusch commented that it was the "zenith" of the representation of Stalin's screen "alter-ego"; and Richard Taylor believed it was "the apotheosis of Stalin's cult of Stalin". In 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, "The Fall of Berlin" had