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The head of the Paris police was obsessed by the need to protect the Sorbonne and its surroundings from a massive invasion by the students. On April 23, 1968, protesters gathered in the center of campus for a rally. As Mikhail Gorbachev transformed the Soviet Union’s government in the 1980s, communist Czechoslovakia continued to firmly control its citizens and punish government dissidents, even after the fall of the Berlin Wall. “There aren’t enough walls to isolate you from that,” Lyndon Johnson’s younger daughter, Luci, later recalled of the constant refrains of “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?”, Soon the voices of protest reached inside the White House’s staterooms, too. HISTORY reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate. He placed 1,500 officers in defence. Anti-war marches and other protests, such as the ones organized by ...read more, The Tiananmen Square protests were student-led demonstrations calling for democracy, free speech and a free press in China. Meanwhile on the morning of 29 May, De Gaulle suddenly boarded a helicopter and left the country. “May 1968 was, in its origins, a revolt against the stifling… conservatism, and dullness of General Charles de Gaulle’s economically booming 1960s France. Young men publicly burned their draft cards. For as Bob Dylan sang in 1965 – “How does it feel/How does it feel/To be on your own/With no direction home/Like a complete unknown/Like a rolling stone?”, One had either to start things on one’s own without adult backing, or not at all.
In the spring of 1968 it was still not finished. : Paris, May 1968. The historian Hagen Schulz-Forberg pinpoints the reasons for the protests in an article entitled Claiming Democracy: The Paris 1968 May Revolts in the Mass Media and Their European Dimensions. Vienet, Rene. The June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising.