Why did President Reagan call for Soviet leader Gorbachev to “tear down” the Berlin Wall?
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On this day in 1987, President Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” the wall that divided Communist East Germany from the western enclave in Berlin. In August 1961, the East Germans, with strong support from Moscow, erected the wall to deter their citizens from leaving for the West.
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President Reagan call for Soviet leader Gorbachev to “tear down” the Berlin Wall in the year of 1987,June .
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- Immediately after defeat of Germany following the world war second, capital was taken in control by the allied leaders and Russia separating the nation into eastern and western frontier respectively.
- In the following years prosecution were held if the eastern Germans tried to flew to the western side.
- Then the famous wall was build to prevent escape of people to the west, however many succeeded in escaping in search of a less repressive life.
- By then the President appealed for tearing down the wall which ultimately became successful with the unification of Germany in 1990.
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