The former reviewer is both right and wrong; by 1989, Chinese communists had lost on all fronts, and the state itself was already well on its path of neoliberal reforms that make it so wholly un-commuist like we see today. The student protestors who were massacred by the state were a combination of socialists, liberal communists, and even hardline Maoists demanding a return to communism as the state began to really reject it. It's only fair that that be acknowledged.That said, this doc is really good, and you get a sense of just how far people will go for democracy--overwhelming democracy (communism)--and how it is such a force.