Thirty years ago, at one of the hinge points of European history, Margaret Thatcher tipped up at the Kremlin for talks with Mikhail Gorbachev. Britain’s prime minister had once described the Soviet president as someone with whom she could “do business”. Now, the foundations of Soviet communism were cracking. Hungary had torn down the barbed wire at its border. East Germans were fleeing westwards. The fall of the Berlin Wall was only weeks away.
30年前，在歐洲歷史的一個轉折時刻，瑪格麗特?撒切爾(Margaret Thatcher)造訪克里姆林宮，與米哈伊爾?戈爾巴喬夫(Mikhail Gorbachev)舉行會談。身為英國首相的撒切爾曾形容蘇聯總統戈爾巴喬夫是一個她可以與之“做交易”的人。那時，蘇聯共產主義的根基正在瓦解。匈牙利拆除了本國邊境上的帶刺鐵絲網。東德人紛紛西逃。距離柏林墻被推倒只剩幾周時間。
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