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      • (CBS News) On June 12, 1987, in a dramatic speech set against the backdrop of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, President Ronald Reagan delivered a challenge to Soviet leader Mikahil Gorbachev: "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
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    Dec 15, 2009 · On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist...

  4. www.cbsnews.com › news › remembering-reagans-tearRemembering Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech 25 years ...

    Jun 12, 2012 · On June 12, 1987, former President Reagan called on Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin wall. CBS News looks back at the now-iconic speech - and how its most powerful line almost...

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  5. www.history.com › news › ronald-reagan-tear-downHow Reagan's 'Tear Down This Wall' Speech Marked a ... - HISTORY

    May 1, 2018 · On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood just 100 yards away from the concrete barrier dividing East and West Berlin and uttered some of the most unforgettable words of his presidency:...

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  7. millercenter.org › the-presidency › presidentialJune 12, 1987: Address from the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin Wall)

    Jun 12, 1987 · In one of his most famous statements, President Reagan declares "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" He speaks of future peace with the Soviet Union and encourages the Soviet government to work on bringing East and West Berlin together.

  8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Fall_of_the_Berlin_WallFall of the Berlin Wall - Wikipedia

    Fall of the Berlin Wall. Part of the Revolutions of 1989. Germans stand on top of the Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate, before this section was torn down on December 9 1989 in the hours before the West German leader walked through the Gate to greet his East German counterpart. Date. 9 November 1989; 34 years ago.

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  9. www.theguardian.com › world › 2014The fall of the Berlin Wall: what it meant to be there

    Nov 6, 2014 · Where Ronald Reagan had stood in front of the Berlin Wall and cried, “Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”, Clinton stood in the Newseum in Washington and cried, in effect, “Mister Hu ...

  10. www.bbc.com › news › world-europe-50013048Fall of Berlin Wall: How 1989 reshaped the modern world - BBC

    It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled.