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Relive the Past in Jaw-Dropping Detail!

HistoryPorn is for photographs (or, if it can be found, film) of the past, recent or distant! Give us a little snapshot of history!

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I've never seen this angle of Tiananmen Square's tankman before. Figured I would share. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for sharing. Every time I see a picture of the Tiananmen Square massacre I get shivers. That man is one of the most amazing icons of resistance against oppression. I like to think of myself as brave but I'm genuinely skeptical if I'd have the courage to stand in front of a tank that way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (53 children)

Massacre? You can see in back there's no massacre going on, just rows of people getting arrested, and the western narrative of "thousands of unarmed protesters were machine gunned down in the square, then squashed by tanks into nothingness" is entirely false.

Photos and eyewitnesses from the period tell us there was a battle with police in the surrounding streets, after protesters lynched and burned a number of cops.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Even the Chinese government says a couple hundred civilians died. "At the end of June 1989, the Chinese government said 200 civilians and several dozen security personnel had died. Other estimates have ranged from hundreds to many thousands. In 2017, newly released UK documents revealed that a diplomatic cable from then British Ambassador to China, Sir Alan Donald, had said that 10,000 had died."

I honestly don't know what your goal is with that post but I choose to believe the many sources (Chinese and international) that show a different history than what you'd have me believe. At least hundreds died with thousands more injured, and that's the low end of the estimates.