Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher held differing views on the decline of the Soviet Union.

The entities involved

• Mikhail Gorbachev →

  leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)

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• Margaret Thatcher →

  British stateswoman and prime minister (1925–2013)

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