Margaret Thatcher Mikhail Gorbachev
In early 1989 soviet leader mikhail gorbachev was experiencing growing resistance from the old guard and bureaucracy to his policy of political and.
Margaret thatcher mikhail gorbachev. I now had to consider the next step in my strategy of gaining closer relations with the soviet union. But those meetings would no longer change the world. Gorbachev says exceptional thatcher.
The story has many parallels with whats going on in the world today. Thatcher left office in 1990 and gorbachev in 1991. I said to margaret that i had no instructions from the politburo to persuade her to join the communist party of the soviet union.
She broke into. 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 told gorbachev britain did not want german unification michael binyon two months before the fall of the berlin wall margaret thatcher told president gorbachev that neither britain nor western europe wanted the reunification of germany and made clear that she wanted the soviet leader to do what he could to stop it.
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. Margaret thatcher was a great politician and an exceptional person who helped end the cold war said mikhail gorbachev the last leader of the soviet union. They continued to meet occasionally.