Berlin Wall 136 to more than 200 in and around Berlin. In 1989 a series of revolutions in nearby Eastern Bloc countries—Poland and Hungary in particular—caused a chain reaction in East Germany that ultimately resulted in the demise of the Wall. After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the Wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, euphoric people and souvenir hunters chipped away parts
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