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12th June 1987: Ronald Reagan calls on Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘Tear down this wall!’

  • 12th June 2023
  • Tagged as: America, Berlin, Berlin Wall, Cold War, Gorbachev, Reagan, Unification

US President Ronald Reagan made a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in which he called on the USSR’s leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to ‘Tear down this wall!’

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26th December 1991: Soviet Union dissolved in the final meeting of the Supreme Soviet

  • 26th December 2022
  • Tagged as: Cold War, Communism, Gorbachev, Iron Curtain, Russia, Soviet Union, USSR
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.historypod.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/12-26-Dissolution-of-the-USSR.mp3

As it became obvious that the USSR was falling apart, on 25 December Gorbachev resigned as President and the Soviet Union was formally dissolved the next day.

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26th December 1991: The USSR formally dissolved

  • 26th December 2020
  • Tagged as: Cold War, Gorbachev, Politics, Russia, Soviet Union, USSR
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.historypod.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/12-26-The-USSR-formally-dissolved.mp3

On the 26th December 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union met for the last time to formally dissolve itself and the Soviet Union.

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19th November 1985: Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time at the Geneva Summit

  • 19th November 2020
  • Tagged as: Cold War, Communism, Gorbachev, Reagan, USA, USSR
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.historypod.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/11-19-Reagan-and-Gorbachev-meet-for-the-first-time.mp3

U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time at the Geneva Summit.

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28th May 1987: West German amateur pilot lands a plane near Red Square

  • 28th May 2019
  • Tagged as: Aircraft, Cold War, Germany, Gorbachev, USSR
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.historypod.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/05-28-Amateur-pilot-lands-in-Red-Square.mp3

On the 28th May 1987, an eighteen year-old amateur pilot from Hamburg in West Germany illegally landed a private aircraft near Moscow’s Red Square.

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