Margaret Thatcher on the opening up of the Berlin Wall

Title

Margaret Thatcher on the opening up of the Berlin Wall

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Nov 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:05:47

Description

UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher on the opening up of the Berlin Wall being a great day for freedom, and her hope that it will be a prelude to the Wall coming down. Speaking of the movement for liberty in the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries, and the importance of building up a genuine democracy in East Germany as the first step towards possible German reunification. Reporters not identified.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher

Keywords

USSR; Germany; Europe; Poland; Democracy; Hungary; Mikhail Gorbachev; Germany FR; Reunification; German DR; Berlin Wall; Border control

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