Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate.

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate.

Mr. Gorbachev — Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

It has been 25 years since these words were immortalized.

HotAir has some good links relating to this speech, its impact, and the entire text of the speech.

It's not about the west or the east, it's not about communism and capitalism. It's about freedom. Freedom, understood in a way that has vanished in most of America.

I've never read it before. It's powerful.

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