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The full video from the famous "Tank Man" photo

vimeo.com Tank Man Full Video

Tank Man

Edit: YouTube link if Vimeo gives you issues

https://youtu.be/qq8zFLIftGk

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Just a reminder: yesterday (June 4 2024) marked the 35 year anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.

Some relevant links:

Associated Press: Silence and heavy security in China and Hong Kong mark 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown

Hong Kong Free Press: In Pictures: Hong Kong’s US, EU consulates mark Tiananmen crackdown anniversary with candles

Al Jazeera: Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te says Tiananmen ‘will not disappear in torrent of history’
Here is an album of photos from the protest in 1989, along with explanations of the historical context:

https://archive.ph/7Tdzh

Warning: blood, gore, visible injuries, death
- The ending photos of the candlelight vigil in Hong Kong are chilling. Never forget that we failed to learn our lesson and allowed democracy to die there
- Holy shit!
- Grisly images, had no idea it was that bad.
Was anyone else told/under the assumption this guy got run over? Wild.
- I remember the video from the next day and a lot of people were run over. All of the acts of that part of history get conflated in memory. That's why it's good to have video and good to have professional historians.
  
  Link? I've never seen this.
What a brave dude and a terrible thing. At least all 42 000 Chinese students were granted full asylum in a unilateral decision by Bob Hawke, our PM at the time.
Would have preferred no music. I don’t need cues to tell me when I should feel suspense.

Brave dude. No one knows if he was apprehended except for the intelligence or military services in China.
At least the CCP is open to criticism and debate about their actions back then.

If you go to Tiananmen today, you will see and hear a lot of discussion of this troubling time in China's recent history. Sure, sometimes the debate about one party authoritarian rule vs the colonial nature of Western-style democracy can get heated, but there are police around in clearly marked uniforms to make sure it doesn't get out of hand. Never again!
- This, folks, is CCP propaganda.
  
  Edit: I got whooshed, lemmy.ml has me on high alert
  
  it's obviously humor
- Check your carbon monoxide detector
- At least the CCP is open to criticism and debate about their actions back then.
  
  this is hilarious
  
  I thought the reference to clearly marked police was the icing on the cake, but people may not have read that far.
  
  I don't think anyone who has been to Tiananmen Square can do anything but laugh at my comment.
- At least the CCP is open to criticism and debate about their actions back then. If you go to Tiananmen today, you will see and hear a lot of discussion of this troubling time in China’s recent history.
  
  Yes, that's one of the CCP's best qualities, to be sure. It's so rare to see a government actively encourage their citizens to discuss such major events,
- So many people down voting you can't spot the obvious sarcasm. Well done haha
Such restraint. He could have annihilated that entire column of tanks with just one swing of his TREMENDOUS BALLS.
The cojones on this dude.
It says Log in to watch :k
- Interesting, maybe that's a region thing I don't get that.
  
  Here it is on YouTube though
  
  https://youtu.be/qq8zFLIftGk
This kills the tankie

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