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They were run over by tanks, and the PRC has made it illegal to even mention the event. Most nation states allow citizens to talk about their own history good a
by ch4s3 5y ago
They were run over by tanks, and the PRC has made it illegal to even mention the event. Most nation states allow citizens to talk about their own history good and bad.
- Zenbit_UX 5y agoRun over by tanks doesn't quite cover the brutality of that night. The tanks repeatedly drove over and then reversed over the same bodies until they were pulp on the streets. What happened that night was ni unspeakable, yet we must speak of it or we risk it being forgotten in history.
- vhgyu75e6u 5y agoTurned into a pulp and washed away with hoes down the sewers
- widespace_ 5y agoCould you give me a source for "Run over and the reversed". I'd be interested in reading about it.
- rkk3 5y ago
- kspacewalk2 5y agoYou seek freedom? You want democracy?! You murderers! Don't you know we'll fight back for our authoritarian dictatorship and millions will die? How dare you challenge the status quo?
- voakbasda 5y agoInstead, it failed and now you get millions dying through oppression and genocide. Freedom has a price that must be paid in blood. Do you think China will magically become free someday? No, it will take the blood of millions to overthrown that regime.
- ch4s3 5y agoThe work "likely" is doing a LOT of work there. Contemporaneous examples in the GDU, Czechoslovakia, and other form Soviet satellites transitioned to democracies in a more or less bloodless fashion.