And the older brother became the youngest. How Gorbachev answered the insult in Beijing
30 years ago, two closely related historical events took place - the most important state visit to the PRC of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Gorbachev (May 15–18, 1989) and "Events of June 4", known throughout the world, except China and Russia, as "Brotherhood on Tiananmen Square" . The negotiations of Gorbachev and Dan Xiaopin, the then actual leader of the Chinese state, turned out to be unsuccessful for the USSR.