Mr. Zeng Ning, a known democratic activist and events analyst from Guizhou, China. (The Epoch Times Archive)
Fast forward twenty years to the present. Some noted authorities say we are witnessing history in the making: the dismantling from within of Beijing’s Berlin Wall, the rule of the Chinese Communist Party.
Zeng Ning, a well-known democratic activist and analyst in Guizhou Province, said in a telephone interview that he is sure the fall of the Berlin Wall has an underlying connection to the June 4 tragedy.
Zeng believed that the CCP’s assault in Tiananmen Square was a wake-up call for the leaders of the communist and socialist countries in what was then known as the Eastern European Bloc.
“They started to think,” said Zeng. “They knew that they could face a situation similar to what occurred in China.”
Zeng feels the Communist Party’s “bloody suppression” also enabled the countries in Eastern Europe to more fully understand the ideology and nature behind communism.
“The fall of the Berlin Wall, the dissolution of ideological factors in Eastern European socialist countries, and the collapse of Marxism have epochal meaning for Chinese people. They should be aware of the invisible Berlin Wall in Chinese society. Communism no longer exists in the minds of the Chinese people. It is only a matter of time before Marxism as practiced by the regime, analogous to the ideological Berlin Wall, finally collapses in China,” Zeng said.
Zeng argued that dismantling that invisible wall, i.e. the rule of the Communist Party, is an urgent matter up to every Chinese person. “A significant number of people have been trying to topple this wall,” Zeng said. “By quitting the CCP and all of its affiliations, people are saying ‘no’ to the ideological Berlin Wall and hence, it’s bound to collapse.”
The Epoch Times in 2004 published an editorial series called Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. Since then, sixty-three million Chinese people around the world have registered their renunciations of the CCP online, often with aliases.
On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the New York based, Chinese Sound of Hope radio network contacted the citizenry of China by phone. One woman had this to say: “In fact, if we want China’s Berlin Wall to fall, we have to depend on ourselves. We have to overcome our inner fears in order to pull down the Berlin Wall in our minds.”
One man spoke anonymously, saying: “Indeed there are many people who have awakened. More and more people are pursuing the freedom of thought, speech, and the press… However, I don’t think the wall will fall immediately. If we don’t make the effort, it will be even harder for the wall to fall. So we have to constantly call on the people.”
Zeng said that the act of renouncing the CCP and its affiliated organizations is an “act that has epoch-breaking significance in contemporary Chinese society.”
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