[dontlaugh]

Or alternatively, the events in 89 were part of a wider trend in socialist countries of NATO-backed violent uprisings with merely rhetoric of democracy.

For example, I have spoken to many Romanians that lived through the 89 events who see it as a coup against socialist democracy. It succeeded in România, it failed in China.

[yieldcrv]

That can also be true simultaneously with the existing sentiment of the time, there are a lot of opportunists everywhere