Inside Iowa State: Iowa State University

INSIDE IOWA STATE
October 26, 2001

Photo by Bob Elbert.

"The Soviet Union was driving uphill, in order to compete against the United States. At one time, this huge truck was driven by Mr. Gorbachev. He would have continued in his drive uphill, had it not been for the Polish people, who unscrewed the engine in this huge truck."

-- Lech Walesa, former president of Poland, on his country's role in the collapse of the Soviet Union, during his Oct. 15 lecture at Iowa State University