'What is there in the Soviet system to admire? Material prosperity? It does not produce it. Spiritual satisfaction? It denies it. After an uninterrupted monopoly of absolute power lasting 63 years the controlled society has failed. Recognising this, let us set about the defence of our liberties with confidence. Of course we face economic, social and political problems at home and abroad. But who on our side would exchange our problems for theirs?'
(Margaret Thatcher, Feb 1981)

In the second of two special debates, Vladimir Pozner, a leading commentator from Moscow, confronts Robert Kaiser of the Washington Post.