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Can they even know that it happened? AFAIK China is very censored and they may not even be aware that such a thing occurred at all. Even assuming they were arou

• KennyCason 8y ago
  People talk. In China I've also heard people say that even if they don't know all the details, they know something happened.
• Razengan 8y ago
  > Can they even know that it happened? This is exactly the most chilling aspect of such regimes: They can carry out any atrocities they want, then erase all records of it from their history within a single generation. In China apparently you can't even search for certain numbers, like 1989 or even "workarounds" like 535! (May 35th = June 4th) https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-06-03/how-china-has-censored-words-relating-tiananmen-square-anniversary https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-06-03/how-china-has-censore...
• hangonhn 8y ago
  People who grew up under such regimes are fairly ingenious about getting around censorship. The more the government tries to clamp down, the more people want to know and they will find ways around the censorship. People talk. My grandmother passed down first hand accounts of her living through the Japanese occupation during WWII. There are also stories passed down from the Cultural Revolution, etc. Believe me, the Chinese know something happened in 1989 at Tiananmen. Hong Kong has been a torch bearer in keeping memories of those events alive. Now the better question is if many Chinese still care in face of growing prosperity and what version of the "truth" they have.