The unquiet city - Bangalore Mirror,Bangalore Mirror: "1989 was a year of revolutions, one that saw the collapse of several communist states — Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Romania. Except for Romania, the others were singularly bloodless. All succeeded. To the east, another uprising against the communist regime of China gathered momentum and culminated
in the brutality of the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989.
Curiously, the epicentre of every one of these revolutions was a city or a town: Gdansk in Poland, Sopron in Hungary, Berlin in Germany, Sofia in Bulgaria, Prague in Czechoslovakia, Timisoara and Bucharest in Romania, and Beijing in China.
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