Absolutely nothing of note happened in China in June 1989, right?
Absolutely nothing of note happened in China in June 1989, right?
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53West Taiwan did some bad shit.
21China's equivalent of Flat Earthers.
20For those not around when that happened, i remember it this way, after 20 years of booze, weed & hookers:
The student protest was extremely peaceful and organized. There were student delegations that would report up to student representatives, educatio delegation, housing delegation, for example. The representatives were negotiating with Party people. It was unclear at the time if the Party people were indicative of the top brass. But there was a worldwide feeling something good and right might be changing in China. If I recall correctly this went on for weeks, so the implications were setting in.
Then it all changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
What the video & still represent is not 1 man facing a line of tanks. It a culmination of a generation of students frustrated enough but clever enough to find a way to negotiate a change and when the Army came in they knew they failed. The world knew they failed. The question was how badly that failure was. There were a few days when nothing happened after this video. Then it happened all at once. And the rest as they say is History -- repression, violence, killing, abductions, lost family members, and rewriting history.
Like the Velvet Revolutions of the Middle East, it was a short time of hope for a better future, for the students & for their nation.
That feeling stays & that feeling is what China wants their populace to forget - and you forget by meming this historic picture without context.
P.S I don't know if the man was ever found out, but I hope he stays anonymous.
9Can we morph the Tiananmen Square into a hyperbolic shape next?
8Is the Tiananmen Sphere the rebuke to the flat-earthers who insist it is really the Tiananmen Plane?
4That's just a Tiananmen 2d circle with stretching though.
4We were all on vacation! In Poland!
3Me when
When I discover G'MIC
3B-But China is free and good...
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Here's some more information about what happened if you're curious. https://search.wikileaks.org/?query=Tiananmen+Square&publication_type[]=6&order_by=most_relevant#results
-3Just like nothing every happened in the 'spirit' of British Colonialism. I believe it was lots of productive civil gentlemanly conversations that resulted in happiness and joy for everyone.
Or that maybe what was taught in school. Maybe not so good things happened and Britain has a very very big rug that they sweep lots of things under. We will never know.
-16Nothing happened on Tienanmen square, how naive are you all. The British ambassador inventer a tad too detailed horror stories, based on "trusted sources". In fact, the students protesting killed a PLA soldier but after a talk with the intervention force decided to clear square peacefully. The deaths happened elsewhere but we have almost no information about those. People protested against different things, some were for liberal freedom, some for more communism. We know what told us the Western "objective" press.
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