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searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Hello you're listening to the BBC World Service and now the witness history

podcast with me Bob Howard today I'm taking you back to the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s and a landmark interview

Britain's Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, dubbed the Iron Lady, gave during

a visit to Moscow. Many people credit that interview with

helping to usher in a new era of what was known as Glassnost or Openness. Boris Calliagen was one of the Soviet Union's most respected TV correspondence in the 1980s.

Today he's a professor of journalism.

He'd been a correspondent in London and had met and interviewed Mrs Thatcher there.

When she became... and had met and interviewed Mrs Thatcher there.

When she became the Prime Minister in 1979

as the Liberal Conservative Party,

her relations to our country was rather negative. That's an

understatement. As a firm believer in free markets, communism was anathema to the

British leader and she was also a harsh critic of Soviet

foreign policy. Look at their record on human rights, they are still in Afghanistan,

look at the amount of arms they're supplied to countries which need food, whereas we

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