[Gay State Conservative]

One important thing that must be acknowledged: When the **** hit the fan Gorbachev didn't fire on his own people whereas the Butchers of Beijing did.

[dfwgator]

But actually without Tiananmen Square, the Soviet Union may still exist today, it was actually Gorbachev’s visit to Beijing in 1989 that helped fuel the protests in Beijing.

It also inspired similar rebellions in the Eastern Bloc, which ultimately led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and with it, the Soviet Union a few years later.