1. Yes, undoubtedly there was a massacre. It just did not happen in the square itself. What would you call it when hundreds of people died?

2. It's irrelevant. You can argue that nobody ever understand the REAL meaning of Democracy and Liberty, not even the Founding Fathers of this nation. It does not preclude anyone to practice or ask for it.

3. Yes it was a magnificent movement. It had its own problems, like all the "sausage-making" processes you will read in the book. But that is history. That is what makes it real, what makes it magnificent.