The writing was on the wall (no pun intended) for communism way before the Berlin Wall collapsed, says Lech Walesa. In fact, he feared that the mass exodus of East German “deserters” might provoke the Kremlin and jeopardize Solidarnosc’s struggle for democracy.
But Solidarnosc had stolen the communists’ clothes, organizing the workers with such success that the so-called proletarian state was out-mobilized. And Gorbachev proved too weak to do anything about it.
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