berlin wall, communist rule, east germany, gorbachev, tiananmen square massacre

From Tiananmen to Berlin

In the early morning of June 4, 1989, the bloody suppression of the student-led demonstration by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Tiananmen Square shocked the world. The Western world and media severely condemned this. Four months later, the Berlin Wall fell. On October 7, 1989, at the National Day celebrations of the 40th anniversary ...

Max Lu

Germans celebrating at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.