Margaret Thatcher Gorbachev
I now had to consider the next step in my strategy of gaining closer relations with the soviet union.
Margaret thatcher gorbachev. Margaret thatchers government played a double game with moscow publicly praising mikhail gorbachev for improving east west relations while privately working to take advantage of him british cabinet files released to the national archives suggest. Thatcher left office in 1990 and gorbachev in 1991. Margaret thatchers courting of the soviet leader mikhail gorbachev was a complex diplomatic affair involving accusations of violence unannounced visits and a strained marxist joke according to a.
Margaret thatcher was a great politician and an exceptional person. Gorbachevs rise to leader of the soviet union on march 11 1985 followed a string of ussr ruler deaths when leonid brezhnev died in 1982 yuri andropov died in 1984 and konstantin chernenko. The story has many parallels with whats going on in the world today.
Meanwhile all through the years on the international diplomatic carousel thatcher was not once seen abandoning her politics she told gorbachev i hate communism even as she welcomed him into her residence during that first meeting. Margaret thatcher meets mikhail gorbachev 1984 the following extract from margaret thatcher s political memoir the downing street years recalls her december 1984 meeting with future soviet leader mikhail gorbachev. She broke into.
In early 1989 soviet leader mikhail gorbachev was experiencing growing resistance from the old guard and bureaucracy to his policy of political and. Everything she wants volume 2 of the authorized. The margaret thatcher i knew.
Tv interview for bbc i like mr gorbachev. This gave her a subversive power throughout eastern europe that she managed to use to great effect charismatically chiding communist leaders from an ever taller pulpit even as she masterfully negotiated with them. But those meetings would no longer change the world.
She will be remain in our memories and in history said gorbachev whose resignation as president december 1991 marked the end. Margaret thatcher at the blue beach military cemetery at san carlos in 1992 remembering the servicemen who lost their lives on the grounds where the falklands invasion started. We can do business together document type.