What Happened In Tiananmen Square?
How Bad Is China's Censorship? http://testu.be/1H1R6sz Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml It's been 26 years since the protests at Tiananmen Square, so we ...
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Every year on June 4th, thousands of people rally throughout China in remembrance of a 1989 violent government crackdown. To this day, the Chinese government refuses to acknowledge the event, and any information about it is blocked from the internet and public record. So what happened? Here’s a timeline of the Tiananmen Square massacre. [1966-1976] China’s Cultural Revolution leads to the persecution of millions and encourages a cult of personality around communist leader Mao Zedong. [April 15, 1989] A publicly progressive, but politically controversial official, Hu Yaobang dies. Subsequent memorials become hotbeds of citizen dissatisfaction with the Communist regime. [April 26, 1989] An editorial in the official Communist Party newspaper seeks to end student protests by warning that t...
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Every year on June 4th, thousands of people rally throughout China in remembrance of a 1989 violent government crackdown. To this day, the Chinese government refuses to acknowledge the event, and any information about it is blocked from the internet and public record. So what happened? Here’s a timeline of the Tiananmen Square massacre. [1966-1976] China’s Cultural Revolution leads to the persecution of millions and encourages a cult of personality around communist leader Mao Zedong. [April 15, 1989] A publicly progressive, but politically controversial official, Hu Yaobang dies. Subsequent memorials become hotbeds of citizen dissatisfaction with the Communist regime. [April 26, 1989] An editorial in the official Communist Party newspaper seeks to end student protests by warning that t...
