To the editor:
Re: "Thatcher conjured up socialism for the rich," April 19.
Never in my life have I read a more biased and leftist column about Margaret Thatcher than the one written by Mr. Olson. In communist China, she is praised, Under her statue in the National Museum is a small inscription reading: "Margaret Thatcher - The greatest female prime minister of the 20th century."
Thatcher did not do everything right, no PM ever does. But it is without any doubt that she rescued the U.K. economy from the ruins caused by unions, also known in Europe as "British disease."
To accuse Thatcher of "wrecking the British manufacturing industry" is complete nonsense reminiscent of communist propaganda of 50 years ago. There is nothing wrong with privatizing government-owned industry. After all, the very word "Government" means to govern, not enterprise. To call it "smashing the public sector into privatized pieces" is a term communist governments of Eastern Europe used in school textbooks as propaganda to justify their own nationalizing program of private enterprise.
World statesmen, from Mikhail Gorbachev to former U.K. Labour leader Tony Blair, have praised Thatcher for returning Britain to prosperity. The voters of Britain surely knew something Mr.Olson still does not know. They liked her.
George Vytasek, Vancouver
