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Primary Source · 1983

Reagan's “Evil Empire” Speech

Reagan's “Evil Empire” Speech
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President Ronald Reagan delivered his famous “Evil Empire” speech to the National Association of Evangelicals on March 8, 1983, denouncing the Soviet Union as “the focus of evil in the modern world.” A photograph of a key page of the address is reproduced here.

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