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A piece of the Berlin Wall located at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA

"Tear down this wall!" was the challenge issued by United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall, in a speech at the Brandenburg Gate near the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987, commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin. Reagan challenged Gorbachev, who was then the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to tear it down as an emblem of Gorbachev's desire to increase freedom in the Eastern Bloc through glasnost ("transparency") and perestroika ("restructuring") .

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Full text and audio MP3 of the speech Full text and audio MP3 of the speech www.americanrhetoric.com/.../ronaldreaganbrandenburggate.htm - Web

Full video Full video www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MDFX-dNtsM - Web

Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson reflecting on t... Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson reflecting on the speech hoohila.stanford.edu/.../programView.php?programID=3282 - Web

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Image of text at National Archives site Image of text at National Archives site www.archives.gov/.../index.html?dod-date=612 - Web

"Tear Down This Wall" How Top Advisers Opposed Rea... "Tear Down This Wall" How Top Advisers Opposed Reagan's Challenge to Gorbachev—But Lost www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2007/summer/berlin.html - Web

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