By my age, I really shouldn't be shocked by this kind of stuff

[tomscud]

But damn.

Two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Margaret Thatcher told President Gorbachev that neither Britain nor Western Europe wanted the reunification of Germany and made clear that she wanted the Soviet leader to do what he could to stop it

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[tomscud]

Also, illustrating the awesomeness of newspaper comment threads, the last comment on the page when I read the article:

Barry London wrote:
Maggie didn't want Germany and the Eastern Bloc to rush into anything like South Africa did. SA was once a world power, look at her now. just because people couldn't wait to snatch the power away. little thought was given to the fact that few blacks even had access to the education required to run things. If the handover had been made orderly over a period of time i'm SA would be in better cercumstances now.

[randwolf]

Conservative politics are human relations conducted without compassion.

thanks for the heads up.

[drieuxster]

Why does this not suprise me.