1989 was my first year undergraduate degree. I hadn’t really understood the reality of diverse forms of nationhood prior to those student massacres. That’s when I first learned why democracy matters, and when I started to grok the relevance of political histories.
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The Gate of Heavenly Peace is worth watching, it is a documentary about the massacres, the state cover up and crack down on civil rights following them. http://www.tsquare.tv Also, the wiki page on Tiananmen Square Protests is quite extensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989 …
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