Berlin Wall album "Innocent Eyes" in front of the Brandenburg Gate. On 25 December 1989, Leonard Bernstein gave a concert in Berlin celebrating the end of the Wall, including Beethoven's 9th symphony ("Ode to Joy") with the word "Joy" "()" changed to "Freedom" "()" in the lyrics sung. The poet Schiller may have originally written "Freedom" and changed it to "Joy" out of fear. The orchestra and choir were drawn from both East and West Germany, as well as the United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States. On New Year's Eve 1989, David Hasselhoff performed his song "Looking for
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