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Take a look at china in the spring of 1989 it was still the time of the cold war the berlin wall would only fall later that year and in may the soviet Union Leader Mikhail Gorbachev was visiting communist leaders in beijing that is the reason why we have so much video and photographic evidence of the student protests on Tiananmen Square that ended in a military crackdown on june 4th because foreign media had been allowed into communist china to cover the soviet summit they stayed for what looked like the beginning of a revolution. It has been 30 years since the crushing of that Student Movement 30 years since we 1st saw this iconic image estimates of the number killed range from a few 100 to more than 2000. Mathias ballinger walks us through the events leading up to that historic crisis he speaks to a ....