This is the “Goddess of Democracy.” And 30 years ago, in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, the original was toppled and destroyed by the Chinese military in shocking scenes broadcast around the world.

The edited version is republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement. The Goddess of Democracy stood for five days in Tiananmen Square in 1989 before the bloody massacre on June 4.

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