In 1987 Ronald Reagan used the wall to challenge the new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev who seemed ready to end the Cold War. “Mr. Gorbachev,” Reagan declared, “tear down this wall!” ...

though Boot isn’t convinced that Reagan had a strategy to get the Soviets to “tear down this wall”, as he said in Berlin in ...

"Dear Mr Scholz, tear down this wall," he demanded of the German chancellor, repeating US President Ronald Reagan's historic demand to the Soviets in 1987 as he stood beside the Brandenburg Gate ...

tear down this wall.’ Orwell said, “the common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped”. Reagan ...