Margaret Thatcher

At home Thatcher divides Britain almost exactly along regional and class lines, and street parties marked her death in some former mining towns in 2013. In the Falkland Islands, 10 January is Margaret Thatcher Day; in Argentina she is remembered for the war and the sinking of the Belgrano. In Central and Eastern Europe she is recalled more simply as a Cold War ally of the dissidents. American conservatives treat her as an icon, and the British left as the author of deindustrialisation.