hi! in addition to /u/Jack_of_all_offs' link, here are a few more related discussions you may find of interest

• To what extent was the Tiananmen Square movement actually motivated by democracy?

• I've just read that there was no massacre of students in Tiananmen Square on June 4th 1989. What's the deal?

• Have the Tiananmen Square protests have the same historical and political significance in China as the '60's anti-war movement has in the US?

• Did the Chinese population approve of the Chinese government's actions at the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989?

• Tiananmen 1989 and aftermath

Briefly summarized in a previous thread.