co-masters of this land. >> lech walesa and solidarity are showing that you could have an independent in a communist country. and the question was how independent were they going to be allowed to be? >> how the u.s. deals with poland, with the eastern bloc and with russia will be early challenges for the foreign policy of the president-elect, ronald reagan. >> reagan spent much of his career blasting the soviet union and attacking any republican or democrat who said we can negotiate. he had been the leading opponent of detente during the 1970s, the policy of trying to ease relations with the soviets. what he disliked about detente, was that they were hitting the negotiating team as equals. reagan thought there are two super powers, but we have moral superiority because democracy is inherently good and sovietism is inherently bad. >> the only morality they recognize is what will further their cause, meaning they reserve unto themselves to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat. i think when you do business with them, even at a detente, you keep that in mind. >> and everybody was like oh, t