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Jun 12, 2025

Pete

Mr. Eighties

Pete has published a news story:

On This Day: June 12, 1987 - President Reagan Says Tear Down This Wall.

On this day June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin and delivered one of the most powerful speeches of the twentieth century. Speaking directly to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Reagan issued a clear challenge with the words Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. His statement called for the removal of the Berlin Wall, the concrete barrier that had divided East and West Berlin since 1961.

The speech came during a period of shifting political...

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