28 Years Ago: ‘Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!’ : William Federer

28 Years Ago: ‘Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!’ : William Federer

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" announced President Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall, JUNE 12, 1987.

Begun after Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, the Soviet Union existed from 1922 to 1991.                                                                                                                                                                                                                            With its motto, 'Workers of the world, unite!' the Soviet Union had totalitarian control over an estimated 293 million people spread across 11 time zones.

In the Soviet Union:

-privacy was nonexistent;
-health care was rationed;
-the economy was regulated;
-private industry was collectivized;
-the press was censored;
-political dissent was punished;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           President Franklin Roosevelt told the delegates of the American Youth Congress, February 10, 1940:

I disliked the regimentation under Communism. I abhorred the indiscriminate killings of thousands of innocent victims.

I heartily deprecated the banishment of religion though I knew that some day Russia would return to religion for the simple reason that four or five thousand years of recorded history have proven that mankind has always believed in God in spite of many abortive attempts to exile God...

The Soviet Union, as everybody who has the courage to face the fact knows, is run by a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world...

Some of you are Communists... You have no American right, by act or deed of any kind, to subvert the Government and the Constitution of this Nation.
President Harry S Truman stated, January 20, 1949:

Communism is based on the belief that man is so weak and inadequate that he is unable to govern himself, and therefore requires the rule of strong masters.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

Communism subjects the individual to arrest without lawful cause, punishment without trial, and forced labor as a chattel of the state.

It decrees what information he shall receive, what art he shall produce, what leaders he shall follow, and what thoughts he shall think.

Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights of the individual and his freedom...

These differences between Communism and Democracy do not concern the United States alone.

People everywhere are coming to realize that what is involved is material well-being, human dignity, and the right to believe in and worship God.
President Ronald Reagan began his address at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, JUNE 12, 1987:

Twenty-four years ago, President John F. Kennedy visited Berlin, speaking to the people of this city and the world...

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...

There remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same – still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian state...
Reagan continued:

Just as truth can flourish only when the journalist is given freedom of speech, so prosperity can come about only when the farmer and businessman enjoy economic freedom...

There stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity...

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, tear down this wall!
Reagan concluded:

Perhaps this gets to the root of the matter, to the most fundamental distinction of all between East and West.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an affront...
He added:

Years ago...the East Germans...erected a secular structure: the television tower at Alexander Platz.

Virtually ever since, the authorities have been working to correct what they view as the tower's one major flaw, treating the glass sphere at the top with paints and chemicals of every kind.

Yet even today when the sun strikes that sphere – that sphere that towers over all Berlin – the light makes the sign of the cross.

There in Berlin, like the city itself, symbols of love, symbols of worship, cannot be suppressed.
President Reagan's vice-president was George H.W. Bush, born JUNE 12, 1924.
-media and entertainment was propagandized;
-education became indoctrination;
-religion was suppressed; and
-human life was valued only by its usefulness to the government.                                                                                  http://www.westernjournalism.com/28-years-ago-mr-gorbachev-tear-down-this-wall/?utm_source=MailChimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=opinion-articles&utm_campaign=DailyEmail06.12.15