Mikhail Gorbachev with Margaret Thatcher

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (b 1931), Soviet leader, General Secretary of the Communist Party (1985-1991), last head of state of the USSR (1988-1991). Seen here with the British Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, nee Roberts, 1925-2013) during a visit to the UK. Thatcher famously said of him: I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together. The Cold War between East and West ended in 1989

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