50 years ago today, the April 5th Incident (known as the Tiananmen Square protest) helped pave the way for the end of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, and with it, Maoist communism in the country. Leaders at the time along with eyewitnesses believed there was nothing organized about the incident, and it was in fact a spontaneous coming together of all members and classes in society to mourn the passing of recently-deceased Premier Zhou Enlai, who was seen both as a national hero and victim of internal power struggles within the Chinese Communist Party's Politburo. READ about this famous and singular protest... (1976)
