The Tiananmen Square Massacre
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Turning Point in the History of the Student Movement
Tiananmen Square is the political heart of Beijing and it always has been, right? So beyond Tiananmen is the Forbidden City, where the Emperor's originally ruled. And in Tiananmen Square, that's where Chairman Mao's Morsalea is,. Where his mummified body still remains. It was a whole of society movement that happened all over China. But I think that we tend to forget that because of what happened at the end. We only remember what happened in Beijing. That underplays just how big a movement this was.
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