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，在欧洲历史的一个转折时刻，玛格丽特•撒切尔(Margaret Thatcher)造访克里姆林宫，与米哈伊尔•戈尔巴乔夫(Mikhail Gorbachev)举行会谈。身为英国首相的撒切尔曾形容苏联总统戈尔巴乔夫是一个她可以与之“做交易”的人。那时，苏联共产主义的根基正在瓦解。匈牙利拆除了本国边境上的带刺铁丝网。东德人纷纷西逃。距离柏林墙被推倒只剩几周时间。
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