Thirty-nine years ago, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a Cold War, and eastern Europe sat under communist oppression behind walls and barbed wire.
But on June 12, 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan visited the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin. There he famously delivered a speech calling on Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”
Two years later the Berlin Wall came down, reuniting Germany and breaking the Soviet Union’s grip on the country.
Today a panel of the Berlin Wall is actually on display at a park in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
In March, Rasmussen reported that support for capitalism has declined since 2023, and a growing share of likely voters now say socialism is better. On the whole, most Americans still favor free markets — but that support has dwindled.
President Reagan’s famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate is a reminder that socialism is tyranny — and that it always fails.
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