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The Russians are bent on world dominance, and
they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the
most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.
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Prime Minister Domestic affairs: She lowered direct taxes on income
and increased indirect taxes She reduced expenditure on social services
such as education and housing City Technology Colleges were opened The policy of privatization Thatcher was committed to reducing the power of the trade unions The national curriculum were introduced The policy of the fight against AIDS
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Thatcher and FitzGerald signed the Hillsborough Anglo-Irish Agreement,
the first time a British government had given the
Republic of Ireland an advisory role in the governance of Northern Ireland Thatcher supported an active climate protection policy
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Foreign affairs: Thatcher became closely aligned with the Cold
War policies of United States President Ronald Reagan, based
on their shared distrust of Communism, although she strongly opposed Reagan's October 1983 invasion of Grenada.
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Hong-Kong Thatcher agreed to hand over Hong Kong's sovereignty
in 1997
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Margaret Thatcher and Russia Thatcher's first foreign policy crisis
came with the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. She
condemned the invasion, said it showed the bankruptcy of a détente policy, and helped convince some British athletes to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics. She gave weak support to American President Jimmy Carter who tried to punish the USSR with economic sanctions. Britain's economic situation was precarious, and most of NATO was reluctant to cut trade ties. It was reported that her government secretly supplied Saddam Hussein with military equipment as early as 1981. At that time she was given the nickname “Cold War Witch”.
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Thatcher was one of the first Western leaders
to respond warmly to reformist Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Following Reagan–Gorbachev summit meetings and reforms enacted by Gorbachev in the USSR, she declared in November 1988 that "We're not in a Cold War now", but rather in a "new relationship much wider than the Cold War ever was". She went on a state visit to the Soviet Union in 1984 . Thatcher was initially opposed to German reunification, telling Gorbachev that it "would lead to a change to postwar borders, and we cannot allow that because such a development would undermine the stability of the whole international situation and could endanger our security". She expressed concern that a united Germany would align itself more closely with the Soviet Union and move away from NATO.
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Later Life Thatcher left Downing Street in 1990 and
The House of Commons in 1992 Thatcher became the first
former Prime Minister to set up a foundation; which was dissolved in 2005 because of financial difficulties. She wrote two volumes of memoirs, The Downing Street Years (1993) and The Path to Power (1995). In August 1992, Thatcher called for NATO to stop the Serbian assault on Goražde and Sarajevo to end ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian War
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In 1998, Thatcher called for the release of
former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet In 2002, Thatcher encouraged President
George W. Bush to aggressively tackle the "unfinished business" of Saddam Hussein's Iraq In 2003 her husband died Since 2005 she had a dementia She died on 8 April 2013