4. The bone remains and other evidence found in the convent show numerous signs of damage caused by crushing and by fire.

At first glance, the pounding site seems full of powerful men, but when we look closer, we see some less fortunate working on the fringes, and children too.

All of these protests were brutally crushed, which resulted in many West European Communists leaving the Party in utter disillusion.

Instead of hearing about a crackdown in Urumqi, Xinjiang s capital, we might be reading about hundreds killed on the streets of Almaty, and columnists would be making comparisons to the bloody crushing of Ukrainian independence demonstrations in Lvov the previous year.