thesocratespot: Theory of trizophenia : AAUW : Chapter: CIII : Dmitry & Annie

thesocratespot: Theory of trizophenia : AAUW : Chapter: CIII : Dmitry & Annie 

Turned out Dmitry wasn't really a Russian, he was in fact Chinese, Son of a descendent of Hu Yaobang, the man whose death triggered the Tiananmen protests, Dmitry's original name was inspired by Fang Lizhi , the Professor of Astrophysics from Princeton whose lectures across Hefei, Beijing and Shanghai built the Student Democracy Movement in the year 1986 and culiminated at Tiananmen. 

Dmitry's original name was Hu Fang Yaobang, he was in India , using a Russian identity that he was given by his family due to his proximity to the ongoing Student movement in Hong Kong that he had started while in high school, he was using his base in India to motivate and direct student protest movement across Hong Kong, Taiwan & the mainland using the internet and various other covert systems primarily focussed against the single party political system of the Republic of China - he was by now a scholar and a legend of the Pro Democracy protests across the Chinese Sub Continent, his thoughts and articles inspired the pro democracy student wings that managed to function within PKU ( Peiking University ) & the Tshingua University.       

To most chinese Dmitry was lovingly called Danwo - Dream a New World - also turned out Dmitry knew a lot more about the Tiananmen movement than most common Chinese did, those were heady days , the year between 1986 -1989, those were the years of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. of Gorbachev and the South Korean Democratic surge, the Iran - Iraq conflict and a bludgeoning guerrila war between the Mujahideens and the Russians in Afghan.  

The allegations during Tiananmen were flying thick, Hu Fang was suspected to be an American double agent sent to destabilise the Chinese Govt., the student movement itself was said to be a handiwork of a set of Western allies but the surprise dark knight was the role of Russia. 

The air of Perestroika and the visit of Gorbachev completly changed China almost forever . 

For Annie, meeting Dmitry was another milestone - she fell in love all over again.