Special - Reagan-Gorbachev New Year's Day Messages, 1987

This was a joint New Year's Day Message by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. There is a sense of the Cold War ending because both leaders were talking about peace and Nuclear Arms Reduction. This video is in the Public Domain. The Master Copy can be found at the National Archives and Records Administration, Room 4000, 8601 Adelphi Road, Hyattsville, MD 20740-6001. The Archival Retrieval Catalog (ARC) number is: 59591

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[Isaiah Bennie]

yet we would take Russia all that land free

[Rubidium444]

your attitude is exactly what killed our motherland,how could you still think like this?

[Rubidium444]

i feel that if our country and the U.S. were friends in the early 80's,the USSR may have still been alive today.its sad to think that the city my friends and i lived in was happy adn seemed as if it would live forever.

[GaryJohnsonFor2012]

I hope you are just joking. That would have resulted in tens of millions of people dead. At the height of the Cold War each side had about 30,000 to 40,000 intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles aimed at one another. An attack by one would have resulted in a counter attack by the other and left nothing but a vast wake of carnage, and NOT any "big and 'happy' land of communism" for anyone.

I find it ironic to hear a Lithuanian say that. It wasn't the U.S. who annexed & pillaged Lithuania.

[quadpit]

Who could have imagined 25 years later I would have hosted two wonderful Russian exchange student daughters in which I consider part of my family along with their families too. The mothers and fathers, who are my age and grew up during the cold war, trust an American family with their most precious thing in their life. I have no doubt this would not be possible without both Reagan and Gorbachev sitting down face-to-face and starting the process in motion and opening the doors I can now enjoy.

[LivingSinner]

We should have attacked USA, all the resources and so much land who'd have been a big and happy land of communism

[RussianGuy57]

Горбачёв по ходу дела в Штатах рок-звездой был.

[Kevin McCrackin]

Wow Great video thanks.

[59KYHighlander]

there may never be another of this caliber in my lifetime and I find that a shame.