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What's So Surprising About 1989?
How do you explain progress that happened so suddenly? I think a large part of it had to do with the closer interconnections between people like Gorbachev and Thatcher. And they got on really well when Gorbachev came to checkers, which is the prime minister's country side estate. But right away, there was such a sense in the air of we can do better. We don't have to be looking at each other as enemies.