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Is this news? I don’t suppose it is really – she’d say that the USSR had no business ‘interfering’ in an internal UK matter – or worse, not quite McCarthy but getting that way; her opponents would say “the bloody old bag”… you know the kind of stuff.

The Guardian

Margaret Thatcher blocked Soviet aid for striking miners, files reveal The Guardian … Guardian after a five-year freedom of information battle, show how the pair clashed during the titanic miners’ strike that convulsed Britain in 1984-85. … and more »