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Deng Xiaoping decided to experiment
with democracy. He allowed people
to put up posters and sell magazines in Tiananmen Square. It was known as Democracy Wall... ..and it quickly became a symbol
of a new openness in China. But then it started
to run out of control. People published details
of widespread corruption, greed, incompetence, and nepotism at the
very top of the Communist Party... ..and then that force that Jiang
Qing had prophesied, individualism, re-emerged
with democracy. He allowed people
to put up posters and sell magazines in Tiananmen Square. It was known as Democracy Wall... ..and it quickly became a symbol
of a new openness in China. But then it started
to run out of control. People published details
of widespread corruption, greed, incompetence, and nepotism at the
very top of the Communist Party... ..and then that force that Jiang
Qing had prophesied, individualism, re-emerged
Full Transcript
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Deng Xiaoping decided to experiment
with democracy.
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He allowed people
to put up posters and sell magazines
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in Tiananmen Square.
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It was known as Democracy Wall...
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..and it quickly became a symbol
of a new openness in China.
00:00:18.096 --> 00:00:21.999
But then it started
to run out of control.
00:00:22.036 --> 00:00:26.999
People published details
of widespread corruption, greed,
00:00:26.999 --> 00:00:30.048
incompetence, and nepotism at the
very top of the Communist Party...
00:00:32.002 --> 00:00:36.072
..and then that force that Jiang
Qing had prophesied, individualism,
00:00:36.072 --> 00:00:38.024
re-emerged.
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Movie Summary
Love, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence and You. An emotional history of the modern world by Adam Curtis.
