Tag Archive | 1989
Remembering Poland June 4, 1989
Today also marks the 20th anniversary of the nearly-free elections that broke communist power in Poland and which triggered political revolution across east-central Europe in 1989. I think it’s worth quoting this passage from Timothy Garton-Ash, writing in 1990 in We The People: The Revolution of ’89 As Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague: […]
Remembering Tiananmen Square
It’s coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square… Watched an excellent film on BBC2 last night in which Kate Adie returned to the scene of one of her most memorable assignments: reporting the massacre of hundreds of civilians in Beijing on the 3rd and 4th June, 1989. She was […]
