I’m happy they didn’t kill that one man but…

The troops advanced into central parts of Beijing on the city’s major thoroughfares in the early morning hours of 4 June and engaged in bloody clashes with demonstrators attempting to block them, in which many people – demonstrators, bystanders, and soldiers – were killed. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more wounded

Also the tank is very clearly leaving the square in that video, if you’ve seen any imagery of the area it’s immediately recognizable. (Besides that; it also doesn’t make sense that the street is so clear, that close to the square, because the military did encounter serious resistance going in. I wonder why we don’t see that imagery floating around 🤔)

He’s not standing in the way of them to protest the intervention before it started, he’s demanding that the tanks turn around and remain present in the square some time after everything that had occurred.

There’s a reason Western media never shows the full video. They want the viewers to wrongly fill in the blanks and assume that he was run over.

I’d love to know what words were exchanged between the man and the tank commander. Since he has never been identified we’ll probably never know.

Maybe we need to go back to calling them massacres. “The Portland Massacre, and the Minneapolis Massacre”

That the trouble with meeting people from other side of the world we didn’t get the same propaganda. In Europe I didn’t got the tianamen thing. I was too young I guess but it was not surprising since I seen news turn coat in the Bush thingy. I discovered it on reddit and got the US version. I got the other side version from Lemmy. No state is clean in Europe too, media are hiding horrors in Africa fine during colonialism. I am not surprised about the lie. You will smile, I grow up in a small lost town in Europe and their was reputation that Asian were smart and american obese. That was before internet. O fk I am old…