By contrasting areas such as the West portion of Berlin, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, Reagan gets his point across about the Brandenburg Gate. Countries that had no chance …show more content…
This prevented people from fleeing to the West for democracy. It wasn't any better in 1987, when Reagan acknowledged, "Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. From the Baltic, south, those barriers cut across Germany in a gash of barbed wire, concrete, dog runs, and guardtowers." According to paragraph 4. He thought that the wall must be torn down for a less dreary future, like West …show more content…
Ronald Reagan describes that," Beginning 10 years ago, the Soviets challenged the Western alliance with a grave new threat, hundreds of new and more deadly SS-20 nuclear missiles, capable of-striking every capital in Europe. The Western alliance responded by committing itself to a counterdeployment unless the Soviets agreed to negotiate a better solution; namely, the elimination of such weapons on both sides." In his thirteenth paragraph. This information leads to the conclusion that the Soviet Union is dangerous. This group ultimately fell December 25th,