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by ylyn 1839 days ago
> it was worth to sacrifice 3000 lifes for 30 years of stability.

No one knows what China would be like now had the CCP acceeded to the students' demands and liberalised.

Taiwan ended their long period of martial law around the same time too, and for a nation with so much stacked against it, you can hardly say they're doing badly.