Just after President Ronald Reagan finished delivering a speech in Florida on March 8, 1983, the media had their headline. Reagan had called the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” describing the Cold War arms race as the “struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.”
Earlier in the speech, Reagan’s rhetoric was even tougher. He noted that while the Soviets “preach the supremacy of the State, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.”
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