Hu Yaobang
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Hu Yaobang was a Chinese politician who was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China. He held the top office of the Chinese Communist Party from 1981 to 1987, first as Chairman from 1
Hu on a visit to Rome in 1985
Hu Yaobang at Yan'an in the 1930s
Hu Yaobang and his wife Li Zhao
Hu Yaobang, Zhu De, and Liao Chengzhi at the National Youth Congress in 1953 (left to right)
Protests led by students and workers, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, were held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsuccessful attempts be
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…and recognize Hu's legacy; a week later, the day before Hu's funeral, some 100,000 students marched on Tiananmen Square, eventually leading to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in June. The Chinese government subsequently censored details of Hu's life, but in 2005 it commemorated him and lifted its censorships, on the occasion…
Události na náměstí Tian an men, Čína 1989, foto Jiří Tondl
A slogan inside the Former Residence of Hu Yaobang, a leading reformist whose death triggered the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989
Deng Xiaoping (1904–1997) was the Paramount Leader of China.
Han Dongfang, founder of the Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation