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On June 12, 1987, at the Brandenburg Gate, United States president Ronald Reagan delivered a speech commonly known by a key line from the middle part: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! " Reagan called for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to open the Berlin Wall , which had encircled West Berlin since 1961.
Tear down this wall! Usage on pt.wikipedia.org Muro de Berlim; Tear down this wall! Usage on ru.wikipedia.org Снесите эту стену; Usage on simple.wikipedia.org Tear down this wall! Usage on sv.wikipedia.org Riv denna mur! Usage on uk.wikipedia.org Зруйнуйте цю стіну!
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The speech is ranked as one of the ten best American political speeches of the 20th century. [16] Reagan believed that Western Democracy offered the best hope to open the Berlin Wall. [17] On June 12, 1987, he gave a speech at the Wall in which he challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall!"
Referencing Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's refusal to remove the Berlin Wall, the speech, delivered by Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin on 12 June 1987, contained the sentence: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" [citation needed]
Ronald Reagan would evoke both the sentiment and the legacy of Kennedy's speech 24 years later in his "Tear down this wall!" speech. There are commemorative sites to Kennedy in Berlin, such as the German-American John F. Kennedy School and the John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies of the FU Berlin.
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