People's Liberation Army at Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
Автор:Jesse Russell Год: 2013 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 117 ISBN: 9785514727315 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! During the 1989 student demonstrations in Beijing, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) played a decisive role in enforcing martial law, suppressing the demonstrations by force and upholding the authority of the Chinese Communist Party. The scale of military's mobilization and degree of bloodshed inflicted against civilians were unprecedented both in the history of the People's Republic and the history of Beijing, a city with a tradition of popular protests against ruling authorities dating back to the May Fourth Movement of 1919. The topic of the Tianamen protests in general and the military's role in the crackdown remain forbidden from public discussion in China. The killings in Beijing continue to taint the legacies of the party elders, led by Deng Xiaoping, and weighs on the generation of leaders whose careers advanced because their more moderate colleagues were purged or sidelined at the time. Within China, the role of the...
