“Let them come to Berlin.” In 1987 Ronald Reagan used the wall to challenge the new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev who seemed ready to end the Cold War. “Mr. Gorbachev,” Reagan ...

View of a clip of President Reagan's famous 1987 Berlin Wall speech in which he asks Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." Video courtesy of Reagan Presidential Library.

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tear down this wall," he demanded of the German chancellor, repeating US President Ronald Reagan's historic demand to the Soviets in 1987 as he stood beside the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.