On April 15, 1989 a wave of peaceful pro-democracy protests swept across the People's Republic of China demanding an end to the oppressive, authoritarian regime set up by the Communist Party. This was but one of many movements seeking to bring about the end of the Socialist dictatorships across the world which would eventually culminate in the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Reunification of Germany, the Fall of the Iron Curtain, the Collapse of the Warsaw Pact, the Collapse of Yugoslavia, and the Dissolution of the Soviet Union - all of which signaled the end of the First Cold War. However, on June 4, Deng Xiaoping and the Communist Party ordered the People's Liberation Army to forcefully suppress the protests in what became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre which resulted in the murders of hundreds or even thousands (exact number unknown) of both unarmed protesters and innocent bystanders which ended with a CCP cover-up of the incident.
Today marks the 31st Anniversary of the Massacre - a grave crime that has gone unanswered for. To this day the event is denied by the CCP as having ever happened, and undergoes strict scrutiny by ChiCom censors to ensure the people who didn't know about it never know about it. But what China wants it's people to forget, we the people of the free world will always remember and should always remember. In times like these - with violence in the streets and government officials demanding violent crackdowns - it seems history looks close to repeating itself. But this thread isn't about that, it's about what happened in Beijing and several other Chinese cities on June 4, 1989. An event that should have been a wake-up call for the West that China was a threat, but was only met with a meager and weak-willed response. I think it's important we keep the memory of this event alive as it's an important reminder of how far the CCP is willing to go, what they're willing to do, and looking at Hong Kong it's just as relevant now as it was 31 years ago.
永远不会忘记1989年6月4日天安门广场大屠杀
