Margaret Thatcher was associated with the collapse of the Soviet Union
On December 25, 1991, the Soviet flag slowly descended in the Kremlin, and Gorbachev officially announced the collapse of the Soviet Union on television, bringing down the world's largest red giant.
* There are two main points of view on the reasons for the collapse of the USSR. One view is that the failure of the Soviet Union's internal reforms led to its collapse, while the other believes that the American program of "peaceful evolution" played a key role.
However, I believe that the reasons for the collapse of the USSR are not singular, but extremely complex. By the time of Gorbachev, the Soviet Union was already in internal and external difficulties, and as the saying goes, the leak of the house coincided with overnight rain, and a series of unfortunate events followed, making the collapse of the Soviet Union inevitable.
In 1946, with the end of World War II, former Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain Speech" in the United States, which was seen as the prelude to the Cold War. What role did Britain play in the collapse of the Soviet Union?
How did the USSR fall into the trap of Western countries? From the evaluation of Margaret Thatcher in Britain and the United States, we can see that the Anglo-Saxon cultural circle has a very high evaluation of her.
Kissinger praised Thatcher as a great prime minister, a remarkable woman, and a reliable ally for the United States.
Margaret Thatcher, a respectable adversary, was evaluated by the Russians as "a respectable enemy of the USSR and Russia." Although she was an enemy of Britain, she was globally recognized as a brilliant politician.
In 1979, when the Soviet Union's aggression frightened European countries, most of them sought détente, but Margaret Thatcher was adamantly opposed and showed her tough stance.
The fundamental reasons for the subversion of the Soviet Union by Western countries have nothing to do with public ownership, centralization, undemocracy of the people, and human rights of the people.
Thatcher believed that the institutional superiority of the Soviet Union was the most feared threat to Britain, which feared that it would be squeezed out of the world market. Britain's continental balance of power strategy left it with no fixed enemies, it neither wanted to unify or dominate Europe, nor did it want an absolutely powerful state to emerge on the continent.
For Britain, Europe is in the most advantageous state, so in principle, Britain weakens any strong country. Although the United States and Great Britain were far apart, Britain also tried to weaken the Soviet Union, but with the help of France, Britain was unsuccessful.
However, the Soviet Union, with its strong institutional advantages and abundant energy, has already surpassed the United Kingdom in GDP growth. If the Soviet Union unifies Europe economically, Britain will face an even greater challenge.
Therefore, the UK needs to take steps to counter this threat.
From the Cold War to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Margaret Thatcher has been a practitioner of Britain's geopolitical tradition, adhering to the idea of going to war and strategy, and Anglo. The level of intrigue of the Saxons was further raised in her hands.
Margaret Thatcher took advantage of the loopholes in the Soviet Constitution, Russian chauvinism, and the beliefs of Soviet leaders to devise a set of serial traps. She attracted valuable talent immigrants from within the Soviet Union, cultivated traitors, personally collected and analyzed intelligence, and used Gorbachev as an entry point.
At the funeral of Andropov's death, Margaret Thatcher met Gorbachev for the first time and showed him special enthusiasm. All these conspiracies were designed to eventually contribute to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
A diplomatic incident between Thatcher and Gorbachev, the two broke out into a heated argument over lunch, but through emotional communication, their relationship became intimate.
Margaret Thatcher's admiration for Gorbachev was so palpable that she even described him as "charming and humorous." Margaret Thatcher's diplomatic skill and insight cast doubt on whether she had been trained as a spy for the MI6.
Margaret Thatcher's think tank studied Gorbachev's personality as an easily induced man and an ideal target for the Anglo-Saxons' "peaceful evolution" program.
Margaret Thatcher brokered the first meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev, which was seen as an important step for the Soviet Union to fall into the trap of "peaceful evolution" of the Anglo-Saxons.
After Chernenko's death, Gorbachev became the supreme leader of the Soviet Union.
Margaret Thatcher introduced Reagan ** to Gorbachev with the main aim of plunging the Soviet Union into an arms race. Since the United States was the only one capable of competing with the Soviet Union at that time, starting in 1983, Reagan announced that he would invest heavily in implementation"Star Wars"Plan.
During this period, from 1986 to 1990, military spending in the USSR increased by 8%. Until the eve of the collapse of the USSR, they were still working on development"Star Wars"The laser cannon in particular, is even close to actual combat deployment and has almost been sent to space.
You wonder why Gorbachev easily trusted Thatcher and Reagan. There are a number of reasons for this. In the history of the collapse of the Soviet Union, there is another key figure, and he is Yeltsin.
So, what did Thatcher and Yeltsin have to do with it? In 1979, the British Conservative Party won and Margaret Thatcher became the first female prime minister in British history.
In the same year, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, plunging the Soviet Union into a nearly 10-year war, which also made the Soviet Union known as the "graveyard of empires". And in 1983, the United States ** Reagan proposed the "Star Wars" program, the purpose of which was to establish a missile defense system in space to intercept the Soviet Union's nuclear **.
As a result, the Soviet Union was dragged into a costly arms race, which made the Soviet economy even worse. When Gorbachev came to power in 1985, the Soviet Union's economic woes were already so severe that he was eager to develop the economy through perestroika, which led to the second trap set by Thatcher and Reagan.
The failure of the economic reforms during the Gorbachev period caused the Soviet Union to fall into a panic, and from the very beginning of the reforms, it took the wrong line, focusing on heavy industry and manufacturing, and the development of light industry was extremely uneven, and daily necessities were especially scarce.
And for the abundance of goods in Western countries, for the common people of the Soviet Union, it is undoubtedly a great **.
The Soviet Union's investment in the military industry in the 70s of the 20th century has reached the point of exaggeration, and they invested a total of 10 billion dollars in lasers, particle beams, etc.
This also means that the irrationality of the industrial structure of the Soviet Union is a problem left over from history and difficult to solve in a short period of time. The successive failures of economic reforms made Gorbachev anxious to find a solution, and he began to try to establish personal relations with Margaret Thatcher and Reagan, hoping to learn from the experience of the West and inject vitality into the Soviet economy.
His contacts with Reagan in the United States became more frequent, and in three years they corresponded more than 40 times. However, how could the Ansaxons help the USSR through the economic crisis?
They may take advantage of the opportunity to weaken the USSR. In addition, the Soviet Union was also affected by the ideological virus of "democracy and freedom", and Reagan promoted the "neoliberal economy" in the United States, and Margaret Thatcher also contributed to it.
The main characteristics of this neoliberalism are the promotion of the transformation of industry from public ownership to private ownership, the opposition to excessive state intervention in the economy, and the idea that the market should determine the development of all industries.
To the layman in economics, this view seems to make sense, but if the private economy is completely laissez-faire, it is likely to lead to the creation of monopolies and oligopolies, and if these industries are extremely critical, then the entire national economy may be kidnapped.
This kind of monopoly of transnational capital knows no borders. The Great Depression in the United States in 1929 was rooted in a global catastrophe caused by the liberal economy, which indirectly led to World War II, for which humanity paid a heavy price.
In order to match the poison pill of the "neoliberal economy", "democratic reforms" are also needed. As a result, Britain and the United States, cloaked in academic authority, offered the Soviet Union a full package of reforms, including the "shock**" that led to the rapid collapse of the Russian economy after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991
Under the guidance of Gorbachev's ideas, Reagan and Thatcher gradually influenced the decision-making level of the Soviet Union, introducing the ideas of "neoliberalism" and "democratic reform".
This idea penetrated the Soviet people and made them yearn for perestroika. Gorbachev was so deeply influenced by this thinking that he even saw his own brain as a medium that could be implanted with a virus, designed to provoke chaos within the Soviet Union.
The Soviet leadership fell for the ensemble, which was largely due to their lack of convictions. Ever since Khrushchev completely repudiated Stalin in 1956, "revisionism" in the Soviet Union has gradually spread.
A combination of internal and external factors led Soviet reforms astray. In 1987, Gorbachev began institutional reforms, agreeing with the views of Reagan and Thatcher, which led to the Soviet Union being led by the nose by Britain and the United States.
In December of the same year, the Soviet Union signed an intermediate-range missile treaty with the United States, destroying many intermediate-range missiles deployed in the Eurasian region, while the United States symbolically destroyed some obsolete and expiring missiles.
The following year, the Soviet Union took the initiative to reduce its troops by 500,000 in order to demonstrate peace sincerity to the West. Under the influence of the Western policy of "democracy and freedom", the United States and Great Britain had the opportunity to cultivate an opposition in the USSR.
Among them, the United States sent some spokesmen for Western interests to Gorbachev's side.
The key figure in Thatcher's hidden danger during the Soviet perestroika was Yeltsin. Although Gorbachev once praised Yeltsin, Yeltsin's reforms went to extremes, leading to the intensification of internal contradictions and the decline of public credibility.
Eventually, their disagreements over their approach to reform led them to go their separate ways.
Britain seized a golden opportunity at this point, and Margaret Thatcher carefully set a third trap. Under her operation, the West elected Yeltsin as the leader of the "human line", a "democratic organization" that arose from within the Soviet Union in the Baltic region and specifically opposed to Gorbachev.
At first, the think tank around Thatcher was hotly debated about whether to choose Yeltsin. After many contacts and observations, Thatcher finally made a decision and chose Yeltsin.
In the process of opposing Gorbachev, he gathered many ** forces. In June 1991, Yeltsin was elected to the Russian Federation** and began to blatantly target the Soviet Union.
Seeing that the Soviet Union was about to collapse, the deputy of the Soviet Union ** Yanayev launched 8The 19 Incident, also known as the "August Coup", was intended to save the Soviet Union, but ultimately ended in failure.
Yeltsin's power was significantly boosted with the support of the British, who bypassed Gorbachev and created the "CIS" with other Soviet states that were about to become independent.
Subsequently, other member states joined the Soviet Union, and the survival of the Soviet Union became precarious, eventually becoming an empty shell. Gorbachev was forced to leave the core of power, his ** position was practically extinct in name, and he was abandoned by the United States and Great Britain.
The once glorious leader of the Soviet Union can now only watch as the Soviet Union collapses and disappears from the world map.
The CIA's secret documents were cracked, revealing that Reagan's "Star Wars" program in 1983 was actually a**. This plan was designed to drag the Soviet Union into an arms race, making it even worse for its economy.
This became the motivation for Gorbachev's reforms, and the strategic miscalculation of the United States made it more difficult to reform the Soviet economy and cast doubt on the Soviet system.
All this provided a key opportunity for Thatcher to take advantage of Yeltsin. History is full of confusion, and every forced choice in the present will affect the course of history. Britain painted a vision of "world peace" for the Soviet Union, hoping to eliminate confrontation and nuclear deterrence through universal values and world institutions.
Margaret Thatcher and Yeltsin saw the existence of the Warsaw Pact and NATO as unnecessary. However, when Gorbachev dissolved the Warsaw Pact and renounced force in accordance with this vision, the Anglo-Saxons bared their fangs.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO expanded eastward five times, forcing Russia with a sword, pushing Russia into a corner, pointing directly at its throat. How do Russians feel about this now?
Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving prime minister in British history, with a total of 11 years. She experienced the brutal struggle of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and also witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union. In her later years, she suffered Alzheimer's disease from a stroke, and after the death of her husband Sir Dennis, she spent the last 10 years of her life in solitude and desolation.
In 2013, a grand state funeral was held in her honor.
Margaret Thatcher was an authoritarian politician, and while she was respected by half the people in Britain, half was dissatisfied with her because of her hard-line policies.
She has as many friends as she has enemies, and her political tactics have allowed her to gain a foothold on the international stage, but she has also been criticized for it. Her passing is a relief for some people, but for many more, her contribution cannot be ignored.
Her policies, especially those of the Cold War, had far-reaching implications for Britain and Russia.