Michael Maloy; Bountiful.
Both my wife and I, we feel it's amazing how quick the turnaround has been from the Soviet Union - as we know it - to democracy. It is pretty amazing.I figure whatever the people over there want is good. It probably is better for them, in the long run.
Jan Stoudnor; Salt Lake City.
I'm glad to see that they're going to have, maybe, their own governments work and the separating of the states.
I think (communism) works on some occasions, but I'd rather see a democracy at all costs.
Shari Kirschner; Salt Lake City.
I'm excited about it. Why? Because I think it'd be good for the people, not that they are going to go strictly capitalist, but they'll be able to have some of the more nice things in life. I mean, like a dishwasher, or an iron.
You read articles about these women, it's like (they are) 40, 50 years behind in time. They can't function. Consequently, they have unhappy marriages because they work so hard.
Thomas Woods; Salt Lake City.
For 75 years the communists have ruled in Russia, and now it's all coming apart. And I thought I'd never see it in my lifetime - not in my children's lifetime.
It's a good thing, basically, but there are some problems that still have got to be worked out. Like, who's controlling the nuclear weapons? And, will Gorbachev be able to bring it off? It is a radical change in the economy.
Jennilyn Stoffers; Salt Lake City.
I think it's exciting, but I hope it doesn't go too fast, because then there will be some problems.
We just need to send help like food and stuff, but we need to stay out of it politically, because it'll hurt more than it'd help.
We should tell them what we think, but we don't need to go in there and try to force them to be exactly like us.
Al Josephy; Sun Valley.
I have mixed reactions about it. It's clearly an antiquated economic system, but it's been that for a long time. As far as the Soviet Union disintegrating . . . the old word from the '30s was the "Balkanization" of Eastern Europe. Those were horrible things that happened there in the 1930s. And I'm not so sure that that's not the way they're headed right now.