Ronald Reagan - "Tear Down this Wall" (1987)

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,This speech by President Ronald Reagan to the people of West Berlin contains one of the most memorable¹ lines spoken during his presidency³. The Berlin Wall, referred to by the President, was built by Communists in August 1961 to keep Germans from escaping Communist-dominated East Berlin into Democratic West Berlin. The twelve-foot concrete wall extended for a hundred miles, surrounding West Berlin, and included electrified⁴ fences and guard posts. The wall stood as a stark⁵ symbol of the decades-old Cold War between the United States and Soviet⁶ Union in which the two politically opposed superpowers continually wrestled⁷ for dominance, stopping just short of actual warfare⁸.,