The Road to the Wall – Ronald Reagan and his Call, “Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall.”
The Road to the Wall – Ronald Reagan and his Call, “Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall.”
Author(s): Clark S. JudgeSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: BL Nonprofit Kft
Summary/Abstract: On 12 June 1987, Ronald Reagan stood before West Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate and the wall that surrounded the free world’s enclave hundreds of miles inside Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe. There, in delivering the speech that defined the final phase of the Cold War, he called out a direct challenge to the leader of the Soviet Union: “Mr Gorbachev, Tear down this wall.”
Journal: Hungarian Review
- Issue Year: VI/2015
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 21-27
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English