Irony Lady: How a Moscow propagandist gave Margaret Thatcher her famous nickname
On Jan. 24, 1976, a Saturday, a Soviet propaganda outlet known as Krasnaya Zvezda published an unremarkable article condemning an up-and-coming British politician named Margaret Thatcher. She had taken leadership of the U.K. conservative party, then the opposition party, less than a year earlier and had earned a reputation as an anticommunist crusader.