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I feel comfortable with blaming the people who ordered tanks to run over thousands of unarmed protesters, personally.
by throwaway2048 7y ago
I feel comfortable with blaming the people who ordered tanks to run over thousands of unarmed protesters, personally.
- 88840-8855 7y agoThis is also not that simple. The soldiers were all young boys, 18, 19, 20. They were scared and not prepared. The crowed radicalised in the weeks before the eruption. Misinformation was spread on both sides. The orders given to the young boys were unclear: clean Tiananmen, but no blood. Further, they were very bad equipped: live ammunition. The forces have evaluated later the situation and invested in rubber bullets and other "strike breaking" weapons. It was just a disaster and a sad moment in history. No winners, only losers.