In this conversation with some of the participants of the talks, one can read about the endeavours represented by the negotiating sides and the tactics of negotiation serving those goals.

This is a testimony of the value of a document about Stalinism by a one time camp inmate philosopher. The writing reflects a whole historical period and the world of emotions and way of seeing of a whole generation.

The shocking collection of stories is from events that happened in the immediate range of vision of an economic leader which present how the group of managers can obtain the ownership rights of the producing units they manage (be they cooperatives or state companies) by making use of the possibilities provided by the Transformation Act and the economic regulators and under what conditions does the privatization of state owned enterprises take place and how.

In this short paper the author replaces the alternative of state and/or private property by the basically new solution – the need to build the workers' councils as a system.