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 “an evil empire,” and said the nuclear arms race was more than just a struggle between two ambitious superpowers.
To Reagan, ignoring “the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire,” would be to “remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.”
