As early as the 1960s, Reagan framed the struggle between the West and the Soviet Union as a fight between good and evil. In 1983 he put it in a way that would resonate around the world.
Speaking before the National Association of Evangelicals, Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as 鈥渁n evil empire,鈥� and said the nuclear arms race was more than just a struggle between two ambitious superpowers.
To Reagan, ignoring 鈥渢he facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire,鈥� would be to 鈥渞emove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.鈥�
