Berlin Wall

In 1987, the Berlin Wall was torn down. Prompted by my speech that I made to the world. For 25 years this wall divided West, Berlin from the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). This was a strong symbol of the Soviet aggression present at the time in Russia. It was confirmed as least 135 people were killed trying to cross the wall into West Berlin. In 1987 I gave a speech to the world, telling Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. Mikhail Gorbachev was the president of the Soviet Union during the 1980's. When millions of people heard this faithful speech, they believed with such power that the Berlin Wall was coming down. They took power and in throughout all of the east, the wall started to fall. Millions of people took action and by 1989 the wall was nothing but a pile of dust and broken rock. This was one of the leading factors to the decline of Soviet communism.