re: #64 Occasional Reader
Are you sure about that? I seem to recall seeing news footage of the massacre from the get-go.
So do I. I remeber the tanks, and I *think* that I recall that in real-time. I do recall that there was quite a bit of confusion about what was happening in the evenings toward the end, but anybody with a sufficiently “nuanced” understanding of Communism knew exactly what was happening.