The Wall – Live in Berlin council meeting, and felt they needed some kind of an event to focus attention on it… So I agreed to have a meeting with Leonard Cheshire. And I was very impressed, and said I would do what I could, although I thought it was very unlikely that it would come off… Then, in November [1989], when the wall started coming down, we started negotiating." The show had a sell-out crowd of over 350,000 people. Right before the performance started the gates were opened which enabled at least another 100,000 people to watch. While this broke records for a paid-entry concert,
The Fall of Berlin (film) Fall" was supposed to be part of a cycle of ten films about the premier's role in World War II, entitled "Stalin's Ten Blows", though not corresponding with the eponymous series of Eastern Front campaigns. The project was only partially fulfilled until Stalin's death. As with all films in which his character made an appearance, Stalin took a keen interest in the work on "The Fall of Berlin". The premier intervened in Pavlenko's writing, read the screenplay's manuscript and corrected several grammatical mistakes; he also deleted a short sequence during which a German civilian in Berlin exhorted his family to