These encounters exhibited the then growing prevalence of student activism, parallel to demonstrations in other countries wherein students played a large role such as the toppling of the Sukarno regime in Indonesia and the collapse of the Soviet Union through the Prague Spring.
这些展现了当时日益流行的学生行动主义，与当时其他学生发挥了重大作用的国家示威活动并行，例如印度尼西亚苏加诺政权的倒塌和苏联在布拉格之春中的崩溃。