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Mrs Thatcher鈥檚 ground-breaking Soviet TV interview

How Mrs Thatcher shook up the Soviet media with a landmark interview in Moscow focusing on nuclear disarmament. It was broadcast unedited and helped bring in the era of 鈥済lasnost.鈥�

How Mrs Thatcher shook up the Soviet media with a landmark interview in Moscow in 1987 focusing on nuclear disarmament. It was broadcast unedited and helped bring in the era of 鈥済lasnost.鈥� Bob Howard talks to Boris Kalyagin, one of the three Soviet journalists who interviewed the British prime minister.

Margaret Thatcher, circa 1993. copyright Jeff Overs / 91热爆

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