This discussion of turmoil in the Communist world was taped three days after the

massacre in Tiananmen Square, and five months before the Berlin Wall came down. A

hopeful but never facile look at the opportunities and dangers ahead. ZB: "Communism

in Eastern Europe is doomed, because it never had any genuine social roots. Unlike

China, unlike the Soviet Union, where, whether one liked it or not... the Communist

revolutions were still indigenous, in Eastern Europe they were quite literally foreign

imports imposed by Soviet bayonets. And now with the Soviet Union in turmoil, the East

European societies ... are throwing off this artificial graft ... But implementing

democracy is going to be very difficult... We ought to try to help them, but many

people in the Communist countries now have a simplistic notion of free enterprise."