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1989 was the year that Gorbachev brought multiple reforms to the Soviet Union leading to the end of the Cold War, the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union. It was also the same year that attempts to bring these same reforms in China ended in the Tienanmen Square massacre. But what if Hu Yaobang was the leader of China and Gorbachev died before implementing reforms and a hardliner took his place? What if China became the democracy and the Soviets caused a Red Square Massacre? How would the world look like today?