I witnessed up front the types of idiots detailed here but in Hong Kong during the riots of the last half of 2019 and first two months of 2020 - when you see 20 somethings spitting at and physically assaulting Chinese OAPs, a big no no in Chinese culture, you get a feeling of what they were up to in 1989. Indeed much focus in Hong Kong was around what used to be the Prince of Wales Barracks in Admiralty, the thugs were trying to get the PLA to intervene.

Think what you may, but if these counter-revolutionary, western backed nutters had won, China would have become like Russia post dissolution of the USSR, with millions left in poverty as a result.