The second of three programmes lieds in the Red
A report by Paul Barry with Brian Widlake and Valerie Singleton Poland is bankrupt and short of food and raw materials. The Soviet grain harvest has failed for the fourth year in a row. The Romanians cannot meet their debt repayments to the West. In short, Comecon is in trouble, not least because almost all credit from the West has been cut off.
Will this crisis force the Communist countries to reform, like Hungary, or push them back into the arms of Russia? And can the West influence them by giving or withholding technical help and money?
Film editor ROBERT BROWN Researcher BRIAN STAVELEY Studio director DON HARLEY Producer DAVID ROWLEY Editor ANDREW CLAYTON