1979: Big Bang of the Present

1979: Big Bang of the Present

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Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The nuclear accident at the Harrisburg power plant and the birth of ecological activism. The year 1979, the beginning of the future.

Haideh Daragahi

Shahin Nawai

Chahla Chafiq

Chris Niedenthal

Leszek Balcerowicz

Stanisław Ciosek

Alfred Wierzbicki

Hanna Suchocka

Roger Garside

Wei Jingsheng

Chas Freeman

Charles Moore

Michael Heseltine

Roy Hattersley

David Owen

Lech Wałęsa

Jan Berris

Eva Quistorp

Helmut Schmidt

Jimmy Carter

James Callaghan

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Ruhollah Khomeini

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran

John Paul II

Deng Xiaoping

Margaret Thatcher

Леонид Брежнев

Saddam Hussein

Leopoldo Galtieri