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Note: This game, while based in fact, involves a measure of speculation.
The advisers are fictional.
You are Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. It is 1989, and the anti-communist Solidarity trade union has won Poland's first free elections in a generation. Now, the lame-duck communist government wants your opinion on whether it should continue negotiating with Solidarity for more power in the new coalition government or accept a minority role. You have encouraged greater autonomy across Eastern Europe by making it clear that Moscow will not intervene to stop political reform. But a Solidarity-led government could mean the end of communism in Poland, a key member of the Warsaw Pact. It could even hasten the disintegration of communism throughout Eastern Europe. But any alternative that minimizes Solidarity's role could trigger massive unrest. What do you advise?
Politburo
hard-liner
Foreign
adviser
Military
adviser
Click on an adviser for guidance.
NEGOTIATE FOR MORE POWER
ACCEPT MINORITY ROLE
