Neil Young
Bandit (2003) – Set to footage from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) – 5:36
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“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.“
– Hunter S. Thompson
Leonard Cohen
Everybody Knows (Official Live in London 2008) – 5:36
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Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
– Leonard Cohen
David Bowie
Ashes To Ashes (1980) – 3:37
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I’ve never done good things
I’ve never done bad things
I never did anything out of the blue…
“Those three particular lines represent a continuing, returning feeling of inadequacy over what I’ve done. I have an awful lot of reservations about what I’ve done inasmuch as I don’t feel much of it has any import at all. And then I have days when of course it all feels very important to me, that I’ve contributed an awful lot. But I’m not awfully happy with what I’ve done in the past actually.”
– David Bowie (1980)
“The government has never accepted responsibility for the massacre or held any officials legally accountable for the killings. It has been unwilling to investigate the events or release data on those who were killed, injured, forcibly disappeared, or imprisoned.”
– Human Rights Watch
The Tank Man (full documentary) – FRONTLINE – 1:25:55
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April 15, 1989
“Former Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang, a leading reformist, dies of a heart attack aged 73. Mourners begin to gather in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. They are expressing their sadness, but also their dissatisfaction with the pace of reform in China”. – BBC
“The demonstration became a forum to protest corruption and inflation, and call for broader political and economic reforms to build on the reforms that had already transformed China considerably in the post-Mao era.” – Office of the Historian.gov
April 21
“At 10:00pm on April 21, more than 40,000 students from nearly 20 institutions of higher education in Beijing held flags and banners, and chanted slogans such as “Down with Bureaucracy”, “The News Must Tell the Truth”, “Long Live Democracy” and “Oppose Dictatorship”, as they proceeded to Tiananmen Square.” – 8964 Museum
April 22, 1989
“BEIJING — Tens of thousands of students demonstrated for democracy and clashed briefly with police on the doorstep of China’s parliament Saturday as senior leaders attended the funeral of the man whose death spawned a week of protests against the communist government.” – UPI
April 24, 1989
“Large numbers of students rallied at campuses throughout Beijing as the government urged an end to turmoil following huge pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing and a weekend of rioting in two provincial cities.” – UPI
April 26, 1989
“On April 26, People’s Daily published an editorial titled ‘We Must Take a Clear-Cut Stand Against Disturbances.’ … The editorial classified the mourning events for Hu Yaobang and the protests by students and members of the general public over the previous few days as ‘serious incidents of beating, smashing, looting, and burning,’ and as turmoil ‘incited by a very small number of people with ulterior motives.’” – 8964 Museum
April 27, 1989
“BEIJING — More than 150,000 students and workers swarmed past police and army barricades to march into and occupy Beijing’s central Tiananmen Square Thursday in bold defiance of a government ban on pro-democracy demonstrations.” – UPI
May 4, 1989
“On May 4, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, more than 100,000 students from 130 institutions of higher education in 30 cities (including Beijing, Wuhan, Shanghai, Kunming, and Nanjing) held marches of unprecedented scale.” – 8964 Museum
“Demonstrations by some students in Beijing and some other cities are still continuing. However, I am convinced that the situation will gradually calm down and there will be no major turmoil in China. I have full confidence in this.” – Zhao Ziyang – 8964 Museum
May 13, 1989
On the afternoon of May 13, the Peking University hunger strike delegation left the school’s gate, then proceeded to Beijing Normal University to join the hunger striking students from other institutions of higher education. The students shouted slogans such as “It’s not turmoil, vindication now!” and “We demand equal dialog!” along the way.” – 8964 Museum
May 15, 1989
“The protests presented an embarrassing pickle for the Chinese government during a visit from the Soviet Union’s Mikhail Gorbachev, the first visit from a leader of China’s communist peer in 30 years. The Chinese had scheduled a state banquet in the Great Hall of the People at the edge of the Square in May, as the protests raged. Gorbachev ended up having to go through the back door.” – Time
May 19, 1989
Zhao Ziyang, accompanied by Wen Jiabao, went to the Square to visit the students on hunger strike. Standing in the midst of the students, Zhao Ziyang picked up a megaphone and said to the students, “Students, we came too late. I am sorry, students. For you to talk about us, to criticize us, this is as it should be.” – 8964 Museum
May 20, 1989
“BEIJING — China declared martial law in Beijing Saturday and launched a wide crackdown on a massive popular uprising, sending out troops armed with assault rifles. Scattered clashes were reported throughout the city.” – UPI
Night of June 3-4, 1989
“Chinese troops opened fire on students and workers who had been peacefully protesting for political reforms in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Hundreds – possibly thousands – of people were killed, including children and older persons. Tens of thousands more were arrested across China in the suppression that followed.” – Amnesty International
June 5, 1989
“On June 5, a man blocked the forward advance of a People’s Liberation Army tank convoy on Beijing’s Chang’an Avenue. According to reports, the man climbed onto the tank, talked to a soldier, and shouted, “Turn around! Stop killing my fellow citizens!” He was then taken away from the scene by three people.” – 8964 Museum
Crackdown at Tiananmen Square, 35 years ago – Photos – Reuters
In Pictures: Remembering Tiananmen – Al Jazeera
Photos: The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests – The Atlantic
Hu Yaobang: the Death That Sparked a Movement – China Digital Times
Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History – National Security Archive
The U.S. “Tiananmen Papers” – National Security Archive
Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989? – BBC
What Caused the Tiananmen Square Protests? – ThoughtCo.
What really happened in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests – Amnesty International
What international coverage of Tiananmen got wrong – Columbia Journalism Review
Tiananmen Square Demonstrations: Events, Accounts, Participants – Facts and Details
The Army Clears Tiananmen Square – The Pulitzer Prizes
Testimonies of Survivors and Families of Victims of the June Fourth Crackdown – HRIC
Casualty Figures (Heavily Disputed)
“The reported death toll varies, from the Chinese State Council’s official count of around 300 to a student union estimate of 4,000 – South China Morning Post
“The Chinese Red Cross initially reported 2,600, then quickly retracted that figure under intense pressure from the government. The official Chinese government figure is 241 dead, including soldiers, and 7,000 wounded.” – PBS
Tiananmen Square protests killed at least 10,000 people, according to newly released UK documents….Previous estimates of the deaths in the pro-democracy protests ranged from several hundred to more than 1,000.” – BBC
Aftermath
Tiananmen, 15 Years On – Human Rights Watch
World marks 30 years since Tiananmen massacre as China censors all mention – CNN
Silence and heavy security in China and Hong Kong – 35th anniversary – AP
A quiet Tiananmen Square anniversary shows China’s ability to suppress history – AP
Leaked files – China is using AI to erase history of Tiananmen Square massacre – ABC.au
“We are dealing with a rightist, reactionary, anti-constitutional coup.”
– Boris Yeltsin
The Week That Shook The World: The Soviet Coup – ABC News (1991) – 1:04:32
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August 18,1991
“Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest during a coup by high-ranking members of his own government, military and police forces.” – History.com
August 19, 1991
“In a televised broadcast, the eight coup plotters, who include the heads of the army, the KGB and the police, said they were saving the country from a “national catastrophe.” – BBC
“And Boris Yeltsin, the new president of the Russian Soviet Socialist Federal Republic, decided to go out and speak to the soldiers and people outside the parliament building. He climbed up on a tank and rallied opposition to the coup.” – Cato.org
“On August 19, 1991, a military coup was attempted in Moscow. Instead of reporting on the event, Soviet television broadcast the ballet, Swan Lake.” – Radio Free Europe
August 20, 1991
“When tanks and armored personnel carriers roared into the Soviet capital Monday after the coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, people put up barricades to block their way, pulled trolley buses across their paths and showered verbal abuse on the bewildered young soldiers inside the military vehicles.” – UPI
Night of August 20–21, 1991
“Shortly after midnight on the morning of 21 August, a column of military vehicles approached the barricades around the White House. Clashes ensued. Two protestors attempting to block the vehicles’ way were shot, a third was crushed under tank treads. Crowds swarmed the vehicles. One armored personnel carrier was set on fire. The others soon retreated. The coup had collapsed.” – Radio Free Europe
August 21, 1991
“The coup collapsed, and the plotters were arrested while trying to flee. The U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet reinstated Gorbachev and annulled all the decrees of the Emergency Committee. Yeltsin decreed that all enterprises in Russia were under his government’s control.” – Britannica
August 22, 1991
“On August 22 Gorbachev and his family returned to Moscow. Pugo shot his wife, though not fatally, and then killed himself. Later Marshal Sergey Akhromeyev, an adviser to Gorbachev and a former chief of the General Staff, hanged himself, and Nikolay Kruchina, who had been the party’s administrator of affairs, also committed suicide. Other deaths followed, and rumours circulated that these suicides were actually murders that had been carried out in retribution.” – Britannica
August 1991 Coup Attempt – Russian Life
The story of an unsuccessful coup: Why the USSR was beyond saving – Russia Beyond
AP was There: 1991 Soviet Coup – Associated Press
Moscow coup 1991: With Boris Yeltsin on the tank – BBC
The August Coup: The Soviet Plan to Overthrow Gorbachev – The Collector
Gorbachev’s Revolution – Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center
Questions about the failed 1991 Soviet coup – Meduza.io
What Happened to the August 1991 Soviet Coup Plotters? – Radio Free Europe
Attempted coup against Gorbachev collapses – History.com
1991 Soviet coup attempt – Britannica
1991 Soviet coup attempt – Grokipedia
Aftermath
“The August coup brought the general crisis to its ultimate limit. The most damaging thing about this crisis is the breakup of the statehood.” – Mikhail Gorbachev, December 25, 1991.
The Undoing of the USSR – Radio Free Europe
The Soviet Collapse – OSU.edu
The End of the Soviet Union 1991 – National Security Archives
The Collapse of the Soviet Union – Office of the Historian.gov
Dissolution of the Soviet Union – Grokipedia
ITN News Footage of Romanian Revolution (1989-90) | Full Compilation – 2:42:53
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“One of the most decisive moments in the Romanian Revolution of 1989 was Ceausescu’s December 21st speech (or lack thereof). This speech was an annual event and carefully scripted by the regime to insure both success and the appearance of popular support. Workers, military units and other popular organizations were bused to the capitol and given orders on where to stand, when to applaud and what to sing…
this year the tide turned.” – World History Commons
Nicolae Ceaușescu’s last speech
December 21, 1989 – 7:30
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Kremlinescu Georgescu Rusescu
The Ceaușescus Trial and Execution
December 25, 1989 – 1:16:37
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Andrei Păunescu
Trial: 0 → 1:08:12
Execution*: 1:08:13 → 1:16:37
*“It happened so quickly that a military journalist videoing the trial captured only the last round of bullets and the crumpled bodies on the floor.” – The Guardian
Transcript of the closed “trial”, December, 1989 – Making the History of 1989
Inside the Securitate Archives (informers, collaborators, destroyed files) – Wilson Center
My Life as a Spy – Under surveillance in communist Romania – Associated Press
Former Communist Prisons in Romania – UNESCO
The Trials of the Romanian Revolution – Cultures of History
Romanian Revolution of 1989 in Rare Historical Pictures – Rare Historical Pictures
Archive of the Romanian Revolution 1989 – Romanian Revolution of December 1989
Remembering the Romanian Revolution –europeana
Romanian Revolution – Grokipedia
Greetings from North Texas Radio,
We would like to wish y’all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
As part of the season’s celebration we will be presenting special Christmas programming. Starting from 6pm Christmas Eve – Texas time – throughout Christmas Day, we’ll be streaming nonstop Christmas music. The songs will be a mixture of classics and rarities. As usual it won’t be “safe” for work or kids but then again… North Texas Radio has never been safe.
David
