Ronald Reagan’s Speech At The Brandenburg Gate
As part of the celebrations to commemorate the 750th anniversary of Berlin, on the 12th June 1987 U.S. President Ronald Reagan delivered a speech in front of some 45,000 people that would become a fundamentally iconic part of the history of the Berlin Wall – almost as iconic as the Brandenburg Gate in front of which it was delivered. In it, Reagan challenged the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to tear down the Wall as part of his ongoing policies of glasnost and perestroika.
Below the video of the speech, you will find images of Reagan’s transcript itself.
Jonny Mardling is the Editor of The History Herald. He has a keen interest in Second World War and Cold War history, and with a great grandfather who was killed during the Battle of the Somme, he also has a fascination with First World War history.
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