History of Berlin for a unified Germany. Loshitzky depicts the role of the Berlin Wall as a symbol of the Cold War, détente, and the collapse of the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe. She divides the history of the Wall into six major stages: the erection of the Wall (1961); the period of the "geography of fear" from the Cold War; the period of détente; the short period of glasnost and perestroika; the fall of the Wall (1989); and after the Wall. On August 13, 1961 the Communist East German government started to build a wall, physically separating West Berlin from East Berlin
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