THE MYTH OF THE “Tiananmen Square massacre” is arguably the most successful disinformation campaign of modern times, according to western and eastern sources—so much so that proud psychological warfare specialists recently used it to ADVERTISE their news manipulation skills. We’ll get to that below. As everyone knows by now, there have always been two dramatically
    • mark_zuckerberg [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I disagree that it's a minor difference. That the violence happened in cramped city streets rather than in a large, open space makes it much more believable that the violence was sporadic and small-scale, and that it was not deliberately ordered by the Chinese government, since the protest would be a lot more difficult to control outside the square.

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I'd say the difference between claims of thousands of peopling being mowed down, pulped, and washed into the sewer and claims of street clashes between soldiers and students is a lot more than a petty gotcha.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    This article would be punchier with sources especially for the 35 facts.

  • JuneFall [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Robert Helvey
    https://www.aeinstein.org/free-resources/free-publications/english/
    "On Strategic Non Violent Conflict" - by Robert Helvey

    One book he wrote in the sphere of Sharp can be downloaded over there.

    Quote from article
    1. A key player was Colonel Robert Helvey, a 30-year Pentagon veteran of destabilization operations in Asia. He “trained, in Hong Kong, the student leaders from Beijing in mass demonstration techniques, which they were to subsequently use in the Tiananmen Square incident of June 1989,” according to a highly detailed academic paper by B. Raman, the former director of India’s foreign intelligence agency.

    Some other things we could see during the Cuban protests:

    Western hybrid warfare includes two key principles:

    1. Locate and amplify GENUINE local grievances, and
    2. Rebrand them as calls for western liberal democracy and freedom.
  • dogs_unleashed [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Similar thread (CW for some pictures and video)

    https://nitter.net/yin_sura/status/1533117122636824576#m