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Tear Down This Wall"Tear down this wall" is the famous challenge from a speech by Ronald Reagan, the 40th US president credited by his supporters with winning the Cold War. In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate, right by the Berlin Wall, on June 12, 1987, he challenged the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to tear it down as a symbol of his desire for increasing freedom in the Soviet sphere. (Technically the wall was the responsibility of East Germany, not the Soviet Union). On November 9 1989 the East German government removed all restrictions on East Germans leaving the country, effectively marking the end of the wall. External links
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