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) 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