in communist-dominated Poland. I said, no, no, you just had elections. You need to form the new government. And he said, no, we can't anyway. The crisis is so deep. It's going to be explosive. We'll try to hold this communist regime to account, but we can't really manage this. I said, no, no, yes, you can manage it. I have some ideas. We're going to get your debt canceled. We're going to get a fresh start for you and so forth. Well, we discussed this for several hours. At the end, he stood up very forlorn and said, Mr. Sacks, I feel so bad because I think you are right. And that was, okay, we're going to have to move to some political leadership here faster than we anticipated. So that's how the first post-communist government started to take shape. And in fact, little known fact, but I watched it close up, Mikhail Gorbachev actually helped solidarity get into the government in Poland. Then just fast forward two and a half years, 1991, December, I'm invited to head a small delegation (12/45)
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