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I've never seen this angle of Tiananmen Square's tankman before. Figured I would share.
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Isn't this the classic photo?
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2024
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I think the classic is the one where you see only 3 tanks.
So it is this, just cropped. Or really another pic with wider view?
Yeah, and I heard the protest those tanks were off to stop was against opening up China's markets to western trade.
It's just interesting that the brutality is what's remembered, not what the protestors (who I believe were mostly students and factory workers) were protesting.
My understanding was they were protesting pro-capitalist trade reforms.
That's odd, because that's the photo I immediately think of when the massacre is brought up. I thought it was really well-known.
Most people think of this one
That's almost exactly the same angle as the one in OP posted lol
Except that this photo is way more zoomed in. A photograph of a house from above is not the same as a photograph of earth from space, even though the angle might be the same.
Didn't say the photo was the same, only said the angle is almost identical, which it is.
Even so, t's off by at least some 45°. This picture was taken from way higher up (compare the position of the white lights in the pictures) and more to the left (see the ratio of the tanks side and front).
45° is a huge exaggeration. Yes, slightly higher up and slightly to the left, an angle that's almost identical to the one OP posted, as I've been saying.
OP probably meant "perspective", not literally "angle".
Yeah I figured as much
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