Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Kosovo -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8185)	5/13/1999 1:44:00 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

>>And yes it was an idiotic mistake to send tanks into the square. But there were some generals who were on the sides of the students and were close to sending in their own forces to prevent the massacre. They deferred in order to avoid complete civil war from breaking out. (as it was told to me)<< I read that the army units which quashed the demonstrations were for the most part illiterate peasant units from the countryside, with envy toward the growing prosperity of the city dwellers. They were brought in because the party leaders knew they could be counted on simply because of their envy and dislike of "the cosmopolitans." Can anyone here comment on that? FWIW Andy