It’s literally a picture of a vehicle stopping in front of a pedestrian, if anything that shows how barbaric chuds are for running over BLM protesters

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      While it may seem a minor distinction; those victims were not killed in the square itself, protesters in Tiananmen were dispersed without bloodshed. Outside of the square was a different story with a great deal of violence between both PLA and protesters. There were numerous cases of PLA soldiers being lynched and/or burned to death fwiw (again NSFL).

      Chinese Government sources put the total estimate of fatalities at around 300 during for the whole June Fourth Incident, and wider protest movement, which most credible sources back up.

      Here's a nuanced and informative article on the affair:

      • volkvulture [none/use name]
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        not to mention the anti-African protests that raged on for months that started at Nanda University & actually bled over into & inspired the Tiananmen unrest

        fucking fancy lad incels

        https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvhgBDpU8AAINmO.jpg

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      Doesn't change the fact that tank man is dumb. If they had gotten any footage of your photos then they would have made for less dumb propaganda (provided it wasn't a dead body that was run over).

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        Shit take lol "doesn't count unless it's actually photos of people being ran over"

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            Dude you sound exactly like the fash defending the Greek junta, "but people weren't killed INSIDE the Polytechnic by the tank in particular, stop pushing this propaganda!". What difference does it make to you if they were ran over by a tank or killed some other way?

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              This is besides the point but, the manner in which people are killed, and the reasons for which they are killed, are all relevant. Crushing people with tanks is measures of cruelty worse than executing them by gunfire next to a wall. Having said that, the "people were crushed by tanks at Tiananmen Square" is all part of the propaganda levied against the CCP. It's a fabrication intended to make them seem merciless and to equivocate them to fascists.

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                Crushing people with tanks is measures of cruelty worse than executing them by gunfire next to a wall.

                Really? I really don't think so. And I really can't figure out why you are so willing to die on that hill. Is shooting at them is so much different to rolling them over that one pushes it to fascist territory and the other is merciful and fine?

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      The uprising started with lynchings of PLA Soldiers though.

      If you got run over by a tank in those protests it's because you were a CIA funded liberal counter-revolutionary trying to lynch PLA soldiers because a CIA agent had chanted "freedom" into your ear long enough you were riled up to murder so China could be opened for Western corporations like USSR.

      Here's a PLA soldier, hanged and burned by CIA funded protestors

      https://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/tiann_1.jpg

      130 CIA paid for protestors, propagandists and instigators were rat-lined to the US after it failed

      https://web.archive.org/web/20200604113735/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/06/02/the-great-escape-from-china/5da31d0d-aca1-4c56-9178-767d14c29f62/?utm_term=.d187cf2f2940

      There were only 200 deaths and half of those were PLA soldiers. It was a low level skirmish with some panicky, untrained troops responding to a bunch of brainwashed, Western infatuated dickheads

      Let’s go back to those photos of the burning buses. The popular view is that they were torched by angry protesters after the shooting began. In fact they were torched before. The evidence? Reports of charred corpses being strung up beneath overpasses (one photographed by Reuters remains unpublished), and photos of badly burned soldiers seeking shelter in nearby houses. Soldiers in that kind of situation tend to go out with guns blazing – just ask the good citizens of Fallujah, Iraq.

      https://www.globalresearch.ca/tiananmen-square-massacre-is-a-myth-all-were-remembering-are-british-lies/5386080

      I gotta say IDGAF about those that fucked around with the PLA soldiers

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      Low quality images of blood on the street and a crushed moped is definitiely proof that they ran over innocents with tanks and that you are a revisionist for questioning it.

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        The Hungarian Revolution was responded to in the midst of destalinization... so I don't think we can blame Stalinists for that

        while they're both appalling photos, the tank in the picture on the left isn't operational, and doesn't even have a turret on top....

        also, if you look closely at the remnants on the ground by the tank, it looks much more like a crushed bicycle or motorbike... no body parts or blood is actually visible unlike in the other photo

        the picture on the right is gross though.

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            i mean, the stalinists decided to use military force against civilians, that’s a war crime and not in line with my socialist principles. I think people are allowed to disagree with that decision that was made historically by a government in power, it’s just a personal opinion

            "The stalinists" you mean Cornshev who just denounced Stalin in a 'Secret Speech' which was immediately leaked to the west and would go on to make revisions to Marxist-Leninist (there's no such thing as Stalinist) policies that include

            • denigrating the central planning system as a "Stalinist holdover"

            • Privatising the tractor stations (farmers essentially collectively owned their means of production here. You just went to a tractor station and collected your tractor)

            • restoring the profit motive in 1965

            • Denouncing the era of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the Party is now a "party of the whole people" instead of the proletariat

            • Announced it was now possible for peaceful co-existence between Socialism and Capitalism (rather than a fight to the death as MLs have always stated)

            The ideology and history understander has logged on

            Also the Hungarian revolution was a MI6 backed counter-revolution who's fascistic elements of Hungarian society (Hungary having been a fascist dictatorship for 25 years prior to Soviet liberation) and were lynching communists and jews and they deserved to be crushed

            https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/mi6-trained-rebels-to-fight-soviets-in-hungarian-revolt-1359599.html

            https://diplomaticpost.co.uk/index.php/2020/10/21/the-first-gladio-style-colour-revolution-the-hungarian-fascist-counter-revolution-of-1956/

              • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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                Apologies for unnecessary sarcasm comrade

                For a full rounded history about the Hungarian revolution I can recommend this book

                The Truth About Hungary

                My friend’s dad identified as a stalinist, he calls himself that. I guess I am just going off of my anecdotal perspective with that one.

                Some Marxist-Leninists have become so sick of the Anti-Stalin crusade in the Left have taken to becoming obnoxious and call themselves "Stalinists" but in truth nothing exists. Stalin did not synthesize a new Marxism as Lenin did (to create Marxism-Leninism). Stalin, theoretically and ideologically, was a Marxist-Leninist

                If you are interested in exactly what Kruschev did and the policies he changed I recommend these 2 books

                Kruschev Lied goes through Kruschevs secret speech and proves he was a liar. It explains exactly how the revisionists sought to place all the blame for some of the murkier parts of Soviet history on Stalins shoulders...So they could then begin dismantling the Soviet Socialist system he built

                This book goes through the exact policies they changed of the Soviet system as well as provides a good theoretical understanding of why the Soviet Union was socialist and exactly what policies were revised under Kruschev then the Kosygin reforms of 1965

                Restoration of Capitalism in the USSR, Martin Nichlaus

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            again, I don't know the exact context of the photo on the right nor the one on the left, so the only thing I agree with is that it appears to be a grisly scene

            doesn't mean that the victim wasn't a soldier or gov't official burned/beaten by protestors, as others here have pointed out occurred

            still not sure what you're talking about military force against civilians lol, you are being vague I think

              • volkvulture [none/use name]
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                it's someone who responded in this same thread

                "While it may seem a minor distinction; those victims were not killed in the square itself, protesters in Tiananmen were dispersed without bloodshed. Outside of the square was a different story with a great deal of violence between both PLA and protesters. There were numerous cases of PLA soldiers being lynched and/or burned to death fwiw (again NSFL). https://blog.hiddenharmonies.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/6.-Another-soldier-burned-to-death-hanging-by-a-cable-from-the-burned-out-bus..jpg

                Chinese Government sources put the total estimate of fatalities at around 300 during for the whole June Fourth Incident, and wider protest movement, which most credible sources back up.

                Here’s a nuanced and informative article on the affair: https://frso.org/main-documents/looking-back-at-tiananmen-square-the-defeat-of-counter-revolution-in-china/"

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                    no problem, also check out the extent to which Radio Free Europe/VOA and former Nazi collaborators were behind the bourgeois nationalist uprising in Hungary

                    "reference to the uprising as a “pogrom”, insisting that “Nazis were let out of prisons by the thousands”. It also features Hungarian Socialist politician Szófia Havas, who says that “revolutionaries went from house to house in search of communists and Jews” and “the revolution couldn’t have broken out without groups of ex-Nazi dissenters trained by the CIA who were meant to promote a fascist-counterrevolutionary coup”.

                    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/bela-kiraly-soldier-who-led-hungarian-resistance-against-the-soviet-union-during-the-1956-uprising-1741949.html

                    MFer was literally a Nazi collaborator

                    "Socialist Prime Minister Gyula Horn, who took part in post-1956 reprisals between December 1956 and June 1957, sparked outrage in 2007 after telling the news magazine HVG that “For example, I don’t consider 1956 as a revolution because there’s no way I could call Arrow Cross supporters who escaped prison revolutionaries”."

                    https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/28/world/archives-confirm-false-hope-fed-hungary-revolt.html

    • Harukiller14 [they/them,comrade/them]
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      If the person on the right was ran over with a tank why doesn't the blood trail look like tank treads? Also the picture on the left is a motorcycle or something.