You're on crack if you think Tiananmen had anything to do with the fall of the wall.
That has got to be one of the stupidest things I have ever seen a supposedly intelligent person post, ever.
That has got to be one of the stupidest things I have ever seen a supposedly intelligent person post, ever.
Those who made the wall fall explicitly acknowledged it. West German TV broadcast the Tiananmen events and some people on the other side picked it up. Word got out.
They became aware that civil disobedience had very nearly succeeded in a communist country and correctly divined that their own authorities lacked the gumption to slaughter their own citizens. In fact they were proved absolutely right as Honecker wanted to suppress them but was ousted because the rest of them couldn't face doing it.
I've seen people involved in the Mauerfall say this in interviews. It's kind of obvious when you think about it - the East German thing only picks up steam after that. I imagine the Chinese were also influenced by earlier events in Europe.
Tiananmen was itself influenced by the "people power" revolution in the Phillipines a few years earlier, and that was influenced by the failed Kwanju uprising a few years before that.
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