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Reagan's Speech: "Tear Down This Wall" © 2012 The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American Historywww.gilderlehrman.org Introduction President Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech marked his visit to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on June 12, 1987, after the meeting G7 Summit in Venice. As Reagan spoke, His words were amplified on both sides of the Berlin Wall, reaching out to East and West Germans. Are these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state? Or are they tokengestos, intended to raise false hopes in the West, or to strengthen the Soviet system without changing it? Reagan stated that the Berlin Wall offered the Soviets and their president, Mikhail Gorbachev, an opportunity to "signal" their sincerity and "dramatically advance the cause of freedom and peace." The "sign" that Reagan proposed was simple: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
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In the 1950s, Khrushchev predicted: "We will bury you." But in the West today, we see a free world that has reached a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all of human history. In the communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining health standards, even lack of the most Basic: very little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there is before the entire world a major inescapable conclusion: freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces old hatreds among nations with courtesy and peace. Freedom is the victor
