According to a Reuters article, it was not Ronald Reagan but Bruce Springsteen who brought down the Berlin Wall:

Annoyed at the billing “Concert for Nicaragua” that Communist East German leaders stamped on his July 19 performance, Springsteen stopped halfway through the three-hour show for a short speech — in heavily accented German:

“I want to tell you I’m not here for or against any government,” Springsteen said, as he pointedly introduced his rendition of the Bob Dylan ballad “Chimes of Freedom.”

“I came to play rock ’n’ roll for you East Berliners in the hope that one day all the barriers will be torn down.”

The words fed the discontent building in East Germany and added to a restless mood in the country severed from the West after World War Two — and especially in the city split by the Wall, built during the darkest hours of the Cold War in 1961.

Reagan’s speech was in the summer of 1987 and was heard by the world, but the Reuters wire still credits the Boss.

No matter, they also claim that Springsteen freed Nelson Mandela.

(HT, Moe Lane.)