In the following three interviews made from April-August, 1990 we discuss the impact of recent political changes in Eastern Europe on women, and the political organizations women have formed to confront these problems. Tatiana Bohm and Ines Koenen are both from the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) and were both in the Round Table of November, 1989-March, 1990, which was the effective decision-making body formed after the uprising in Fall, 1989 in the GDR. They were also in the former GDR Parliament and are also active in the Independent Women's Alliance (Unabhaingige Frauen Verband) of the former GDR. In the interview with Slavenka Drakulic, a Yugoslav writer and feminist, we turn to the conditions of women in Yugoslavia and a general overview of women in Eastern Europe. We must be sensitive to the question of difference when looking at women in Eastern Europe. Whereas middle class women in the West wanted greater participation in the economic and public sphere, as well as reproductive rights, women in Eastern Europe have long been working outside the home. Unlike the West, abortion was often with the exception of Rumania and Bulgaria available in Eastern Europe. Unlike the women's situation in the West, in which the second wave women's movement had to fight for the recognition of rights, women in the East will often have to fight to try to hold onto that which they already had under really existing socialism especially reproductive rights. In the GDR that included: the right to first-trimester abortions, and guaranteed protection from being fired for women who raised children alone, the right to a shorter work week (40 hours instead of 43 3/4) to take care of household duties if there were two children or more, one paid day off a month for women over 40, married women, mothers of children under 16 years of age,' a paid year off at about 80% pay after birth (baby year) with guaranteed return to the job, 1000 marks, i.e., a month's pay for each birth,2 state financial support of about 80% pay to unmarried moth-