“Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall” President Ronald Reagan | U.S. Diplomacy and the Berlin Wall
President Ronald Reagan’s 1987 exhortation to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall was a visceral response to a monstrosity. In the mid-1980s, through glasnost—openness and freedom— and perestroika—economic restructuring ......