Shortly before Christmas in 1984, Margaret Thatcher famously declared her liking of Mikhail Gorbachev, insisting “we can do business together”. Just three months after their historic London meeting, “the great reformer” became leader of the Soviet Union.
Together with the US’s then-president Ronald Reagan, the three plotted the ending of the Cold War. By the end of the decade, the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain had fallen, Europe was being dramatically reshaped as the USSR dissolved and modern Ukraine emerged from the geopolitical maelstrom.
