What is Ronald Reagans “Tear down this wall” speech about?
On June 12, 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan made one of his most famous speeches, in which he appealed to then Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” The “wall” refers, of course, to the Berlin Wall — the physical barrier between West and East Germany, as well as the symbolic barrier between two political ideologies: democracy and communism.
