Reagan Visits Soviet Union

Date: May 29, 1988 • Location: Moscow, Russia

U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

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