On June 4, 1989, hope for democracy lived and died. In Poland, Solidarity defeated the communist party in a peaceful election, sparking a wave of mostly peaceful revolutions across the Eastern Bloc that would quickly lead to the dissolution of the
Soviet Union. But in China’s Tiananmen Square, the brutal communist government slaughtered students whose t…
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