China's Fear of Contagion: Tiananmen Square and the Power of the European Example
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The Influence of the European Example on the CCP's Response to the Cultural Revolution
The Chinese government's attention to what was happening in Europe and the shaky communist regimes there made a difference. The fear of something like the Cultural Revolution, even if the protesters in Tiananmen Square were motivated by very different ideologies, so deeply ingrained in the leadership's mentality that they felt they had to crack down. "I do not argue that it was solely the European example that motivated them to act as they did"
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