(cont'd from yesterday's post)
In 1987 U.S. President Ronald Reagan went to Berlin, to the Wall, to stand at "Checkpoint Charlie," to deliver a message to East Germany and its masters in the communist Soviet Union.
Addressing his audience on the free west side of the wall, he praised them for rebuilding their city after WWII. He mentioned that East Germany had begun to permit some freedoms (like ending some jammed radio broadcasts), but that they should go further.
Addressing the leader of the Soviet Union, he famously said:
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
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