Berlin Wall was a deep anxiety over prospects for a reunified Germany. In September 1989, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pleaded with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev not to let the Berlin Wall fall and confided that she wanted the Soviet leader to do what he could to stop it. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, French President François Mitterrand warned Thatcher that a unified Germany could make more ground than Adolf Hitler ever had and that Europe would have to bear the consequences. On 21 November 1989, Crosby, Stills & Nash performed the song "Chippin' Away" from Graham Nash's 1986 solo
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