It is a most fitting tribute: an iron and steel statue of the Iron Lady in a city once behind the Iron Curtain. And not just any city – but Budapest, a place that Mrs Thatcher electrified with her visit in February 1984. The statue commemorating her 100 th birthday was unveiled last week in the Millenaris culture complex in the Hungarian capital. The ceremony was both moving and beautifully choregraphed as several luminaries of the Thatcher era and her children Sir Mark and Carol gathered with Hungarian government ministers to commemorate her legacy.

More than 40 years after her first arrival, the Iron Lady is still remembered in Budapest with affection and admiration. ‘She did not believe the lies of communism, she did not compromise with communism, she defeated it,’ said Gergely Gulya

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