China’s bloody crackdown on demonstrating students at Tiananmen Square happened 20 years ago today. However, you won’t find any mention of it in Chinese textbooks, nor will you be able to Google anything legitimate about it from a Chinese-based computer. Officially, according to the Chinese government, the massacre is a myth. And they’d like to keep it that way, barring journalists from entering the square to cover the anniversary.

WORLD’s Jamie Dean takes a look back at how these students bravely stood up to communism but how many survivors later discovered that democracy alone could not save them:

For Chinese Christians present at the Tiananmen Square massacre, the anniversary carries an added meaning: They remember one of the worst days in modern Chinese history as the turning point for the one of the most exciting trends in China: the unexpected growth of Christianity.

Read all of Jamie’s excellent cover story here.