“Seeing the collapse of communist rule in Eastern Europe after 1989, and the loss of the ruling status of communist parties... the {{w|Communist Party of the Soviet Union}} [CPSU] authorized the {{W|KGB}}... to move money out of the Soviet Union, realizing that if the CPSU lost its ruling status... [i.e.,] access to the state budget without limit, they would need money to live in a {{W|multi-party system}}. Something that the Polish, East German and Hungarian parties hadn't thought about.”