Politically, Gorbachev said that the soviets would no longer send troops to support the governments of satellite countries , influencing revolutions to break out throughout Eastern Europe. Lech Walesa, a worker, organized a national trade union known as, Solidarity. Even after Walesa was arrested the movement remained. December 1990 Walesa becomes president. The soviets crushed and reformed the Czech reform movement of 1968. December 1989 the communist government collapsed . Vaclev Havel ,spokesperson, became president for Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia spilt into The Czech republic and Slovakia. Havel being president of the the Czech , Slovakia having Kovac be president