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Western media always gets Tiananmen wrong. Bro who help up the tanks, for example, was trying to convince them to stay and oppress the student movement. The tan
by JohnnyLarue 9mo ago
Western media always gets Tiananmen wrong. Bro who help up the tanks, for example, was trying to convince them to stay and oppress the student movement. The tanks were leaving on the second day. It's just so very exhausting.
- axiolite 9mo ago> Bro who help up the tanks, for example, was trying to convince them to stay and oppress the student movement. Source? Wikipedia article says nobody has a clue who he is/was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man Chinese state TV treated him like a protester, and spun it as an example of what nice guys the Chinese Army is: CHINA TELEVISION ANNOUNCER: [subtitles] Anyone with common sense can see that if our tanks were determined to move on, this lone scoundrel could never have stopped them. This scene flies in the face of Western propaganda. It proves that our soldiers exercised the highest degree of restraint. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/etc/transcript.html
- joshstrange 9mo agoYes, they were leaving, this was after they had cleared the square, but I can’t find anything that indicates “tank man” was trying to get them to stay. He wasn’t blocking the from entering (people do get this wrong) but was chastising them for what they had done. At least, that’s my understanding,