The Oberhausen plant was bombed, Silesia became part of Poland, and the Soviet Union imposed Communism throughout much of the area where Deutsche Babcock operated.

She was quoting Stefan Staszewski, who was jailed as a Communist under the prewar regime, jailed and sent to the gulag in Stalin's Soviet Union, and who returned and helped impose Communism on Poland until he was caught in one of the leadership fights.

They say that the aim of the radical "Islamists" is not only to undo the attempt to impose Communism, which led to civil war and the Soviet move into Afghanistan in December 1979, but also to reverse the social modernization that preceded the overthrow of King Mohammad Zahir Shah in 1973.

In Afghanistan, the Soviet Union, having grasped the folly of trying to impose Communism on a proud and untamed people, last week initiated its withdrawal from Kabul, which is now increasingly prey to bombardment by the Afghan guerrillas.

Half a century ago, the waves of Chinese coming to Korea were soldiers pouring over the Yalu River to impose Communism.

True, the Red Army's triumphs gave Stalin a chance to impose Communism in Europe and advance it in Asia.

Afterward, he charged that by leading the effort to impose Communism on Poland - Jews were in fact prominent in the party, though hardly in control - the Jews had only themselves to blame.

Some see the widespread availability of tapes and videos as small compensation for the West's having permitted the Soviet Union to impose Communism on Poland after World War II.

Pol Pot and his gang then took a million Cambodian lives during the mid-1970's in a fanatic effort to impose instant Communism.

Just as it was hard to impose Communism upon capitalist Eastern Europe after World War II, so, too, will it be tough to install a smoothly running market economy after four decades of Communism.