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All of those tanks are just on patriotic vacation. There is no other reason for them to be there.
You never visited the Wikipedia page before?
I imagine most people don't visit that page. It's totally normal.
i assumed it was a meme post until i looked at the community name
What is Wikipedia?
I've seen lots of pictures of Hong Kong protests, and hear about rent protests in Beijing, but haven't seen many photos like this in Beijing proper in the 21st century. Are they that good at scrubbing the web, or did I just miss them?
The Tiananmen Square protest and massacre happened in 1989.
Yes, that would be the 20th century.
Is that a picture of John Cena and Drax?
No.
This was the photo in my local newspaper when it happened. Source: local paper boy. (Was greyscale)
ifyou believe the us version of the facts, thats pribably not the only angle you are missing
So what happened then?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/ns95id/beijing_june_5th_tank_man_stopping_tanks_from/
If you want to read the other side of the story
Notably the mod posted a cbs link that says the reporter never saw any bodies because the military arrested him and held him captive. But the mod doesn’t quote the part of the article where the reporter says people were definitely killed
But there's no question many people were killed by the army that night around Tiananmen Square, and on the way to it — mostly in the western part of Beijing. Maybe, for some, comfort can be taken in the fact that the government denies that, too.
'on this site, in 1989, nothing happened'
Claims this is propaganda
Refuses to elaborate
Wow this really convinced me.
Get out of here with the CCP version. As if anyone believes your shit. And learn to spell, bot. Lemmy.ml isn't lemmygrad's alt account, noooo.
well you removed cant speak anything other than english, so you will have to make do.
Fuckoff skinjob
"The US version" being the version the entire rest of the world and anyone who isn't a delusional bootlicker who stans authoritarianism says is true?
the rest of the world isnt just comprised of the us and europe, but i wouldnt expect you to know. can you point to the us on a world map?
It's funny that even CCP acknowledges around 200 killed civilians and yet shits like you exist...
