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In my opinion it should have been the politburo that was pureed under tank tracks and hosed down into the sewers instead of those students.
It really is so convenient, there are so many CPC members, but they all happen to be near a conveniently placed wall that is more than enough.
The western narrative about Tiananmen Square is basically orthogonal to the truth?
Like it's not just filled with fabricated events like tanks pureeing students, it completely misses the context and response to tell a weird "china bad and does evil stuff cuz they hate freedom" story.
The other weird part is that the big setpieces of the western narrative, like tank man getting run over by tanks headed to the square are so trivial to debunk, just look at the uncropped video, yet I have yet to see 1 lemmiter actually look at the evidence and develop a more nuanced understanding. I've even had them show me compilations of photos from the events and never stop to think "Huh, these pictures of gorily lynched cops, protesters shot in streets outside the square, and burned vehicles aren't consistent with what I've been told, maybe I've been mislead?"
I just read the entire article you linked and it seems pretty inline with what I was taught about what happened in school. And it definitely doesn't make me sympathetic to the PLA or the government.
Then your school did a better job of educating you than anyone talking about thousands of protesters getting ground into paste. Mine told me that tens of thousands of protesters were all blocked into the square, then tanks machinegunned them all down and ran them over, and the only picture to make it out of the event was Tank Man blocking the tanks from entering the square.
The point isn't to make you sympathetic to the PLA, if you have a more nuanced understanding than "china killed 1000s of protestors because they fear and hate freedom", you're already ahead of 9/10 lemmitors, including the one I was responding to.
You can't have a constructive discussion with someone whose analysis begins and ends with "china bad", because they are incapable of actually engaging with the material beyond twisting any data into hostile evidence, and making up some if none is available.
classic lemmy ml