About this episode

The episode discusses Ronald Reagan's famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate where he urged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

US President Ronald Reagan made a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in which he called on the USSR’s leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to ‘Tear down this ...

People in this episode

Host: Scott Allsop

Topics covered

• Cold War
• Berlin Wall
• US-Soviet relations
• political speeches
• historical events

Keywords

• Ronald Reagan
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Brandenburg Gate
• Berlin Wall
• Cold War
• political speech
• 1987

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Places: Brandenburg Gate, USSR

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