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A comment on ‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists Are Silenced Under Xi. Parent comment

Re:‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists... by luckylion on Saturday July 13, 2019 @03:22AM (#20426954)
> The leadership and military of the USSR were no longer willing to violently suppress demonstrations in the 1980s.

So why weren't they?

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Re:‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists... by coldtea on Saturday July 13, 2019 @07:30AM (#20427555)
Because they were several generations removed from the iron grip of Stalin and the state, and had internalized the pathologies and weaknesses of that system (some of their parents also suffered from it).

Besides, after all the decades of drabness nobody really believed in some imminent glorious future as a justification anymore -- like they could still believe in the 20s and 30s...

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