Read the passage from Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down
This Wall" speech.
Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in
West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any
city in Germany-busy office blocks, fine homes and
apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of
park land. Where a city's culture seemed to have been
destroyed, today there are two great universities,
orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and
museums. Where there was want, today there's
abundance. From devastation, from utter ruin, you
Berliners have, in freedom, rebuilt a city that once again
ranks as one of the greatest on earth.
In the 1950s, Khrushchev predicted: "We will bury you."
But in the West today, we see a free world that has
achieved a level of prosperity and well-being
unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist
Which statement best describes Reagan's main
message for his audience in this excerpt?
*The Berlin Wall is a reminder of the past and of the
war.
The United States is more powerful than the Soviet
Union.
Democracy leads to greater prosperity than
communism does.
Berlin is a thriving city that can boast of many
accomplishments.
It’s the 3rd one