But the Tiananmen democracy movement, which had reawakened the soul of May Fourth, was swept aside in line with the CPC's old maxim that "political power comes from the barrel of a gun." Democracy movement activists fled the country or were imprisoned.
但借五四還魂的六四，在共黨「槍桿子出政權」的一貫思想下潰散，民運份子逃的逃、入獄的入獄。