By Peter Bild in Berlin
Should monument-saturated Berlin build a memorial to Ronald Reagan?
Two decades after his father's famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate, Michael Reagan pushes for the erection of a memorial to honor the former US President. In a 1987 speech in Berlin, Ronald Reagan famously implored, "Mr. Gorbachev! Tear down this wall!"
Should monument-saturated Berlin build a memorial to Ronald Reagan?
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Should monument-saturated Berlin build a memorial to Ronald Reagan?
The backdrop was Berlin's historic Brandenburg Gate. But US President Ronald Reagan had a different structure in mind when he gave his famed speech on June 17, 1987. Just behind him ran the Berlin Wall, the concrete, barbed-wire and fortified barricade that had sliced through the city since August 1961. Reagan wanted it gone and issued a direct challenge to the leader of the Soviet Union: "Mr. Gorbachev! Tear down this wall!"
Of course, these words alone did not bring about the end of Soviet Communism. Mikhail Gorbachev has even privately joked that it was women angered by a shortage of panty hose in Moscow that caused the Iron Curtain's fall.
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