 At that time, the three factors of the disruption nexus came together. First, you had a political crisis brewing in the summer of 1989. There was chaos in the East German leadership, partly because there were internal power struggles and debates about the reforms that Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev had introduced. Secondly, you had ideas. In fact, in some ways, quite old ideas around democratic freedoms and human rights that were brewing. The desire for free and fair elections, freedom of movement, freedom of speech.