On this day in history, June 12, 1987, Reagan urges Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall'

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On this day in history, June 12, 1987, Reagan urges Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall'​

President Reagan made indelible 'contribution to spreading the cause of freedom'​

 

[KeithD]

Yep, he done good that day.

 

[Lazaran]

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This is REALLY how Ronnie Raygun toppled the Soviet Union.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...soviets/a9184eff-47fd-402e-beb2-63970851e130/

Hope that ^ helps.

 

[RoryN]

Probably more his cabinet's doing than his.

He was already pretty senile by then...

 

[YDB95]

Neither that line nor the speech as a whole was seen as anything special at the time, and we now know the USSR was already on its last legs. The only reason why anyone remembers that line now is that Saint Ronnie's cult-following have spent years and buckets of money puffing it up.