Back اهدم هذا الجدار Arabic Bu divarı sökün! Azerbaijani Tear down this wall! Byelorussian Tear down this wall Danish Tear down this wall! German Tear down this wall Spanish این دیوار را در هم بشکن! Persian Purkakaa tämä muuri! Finnish Tear down this wall! French מר גורבצ'וב, הפל חומה זו! HE
Complete speech. The passage "tear down this wall" begins at 11:10 into this video. | |
| Date | June 12, 1987 |
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| Venue | Near the Brandenburg Gate at the presently named Platz des 18. März |
| Location | West Berlin |
| Participants | Ronald Reagan |
 The full text of the speech at Wikisource | |
On June 12, 1987, at the Brandenburg Gate, United States president Ronald Reagan delivered a speech commonly known by a key line from the middle part: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Reagan called for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to open the Berlin Wall, which had encircled West Berlin since 1961.[1][2][3]
The following day, The New York Times carried Reagan’s picture on the front page, below the title "Reagan Calls on Gorbachev to Tear Down the Berlin Wall". Its impact on the Kremlin became widely known after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.[4] In the post-Cold War era, it was often seen as one of the most memorable performances of an American president in Berlin after John F. Kennedy's 1963 speech "Ich bin ein Berliner".[5] Reagan's speech was written by Peter Robinson.
- ^ "Ronald Reagan speech, Tear Down This Wall". USAF Air University. Archived from the original on July 17, 2019. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
- ^ "Reagan challenges Gorbachev to 'tear down' Berlin Wall, June 12, 1987". Politico. June 11, 2017.
- ^ Osborn, John (June 13, 1987). "Reagan Calls on Gorbachev to Tear Down the Berlin Wall". New York Times. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
- ^ Osborn, John (June 13, 1987). "Reagan Calls on Gorbachev to Tear Down the Berlin Wall". New York Times. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
- ^ Daum, Andreas (2008). Kennedy in Berlin. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 8, 200, 209‒11.