This shit has seriously gone on too long. People who continue to cling to the "10,000 dead crushed by tanks hosed i to the gutter" bs are cranks. It's jews control the banks, chemtrails, the earth is flat, the moon isn't real level of crank shit and unless you're feeling very indulgent and someone is asking in good faith it can be dismissed as equally serious to that kind of crank shit.

  • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1d7lem3/today_marks_the_35th_year_after_the/

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Someone posted a huge photo essay and... it pretty well supports what actually happened. There are dead people, soldiers and civilians. It shows maybe, idk, 20-30 dead civvies, along with a fair number of dead soldiers. And the captions keep leading and leading and leading, but the pictures show what happened - A lot of PLA soldiers were burned to death in their trucks and APCs, there was some street fighting that resulted in a few hundred total deaths, there was no violence on the square, the PLA was unarmed until they sent in armed units to fight the insurgents. It's fucking awesome. Do not believe your lying eyes!

      Note that it is NSFL; Graphic pictures of dead and injured people.

      • coolusername@lemmy.ml
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        5 months ago

        There's videos...no need for pics

        Actual footage from Tiananmen square as covered by the CPC

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8dqOuHqcBQ

        https://youtu.be/7bl_cyYHwNQ

        Explanation of what happened

        https://worldaffairs.blog/2019/06/02/tiananmen-square-massacre-facts-fiction-and-propaganda/

        Translation of official government explanation

        https://www.mango-press.com/report-on-stopping-unrest-and-quelling-counter-revolutionary-riots/

        Tankman full vid

        https://youtu.be/GRb4VY2dU4c