SaysWho? Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 I was alive when this happened and yet it still feels like it happened 100 years ago to me. Tiananmen Square: Why China’s Leaders Want to Erase ‘May 35’ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurricane Game Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 Forgive my ignorance, but was this person ran over? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 29 minutes ago, SaysWho? said: I was alive when this happened and yet it still feels like it happened 100 years ago to me. I was alive too but I was only 5 years old so I had no idea that this happened until later in life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 12 minutes ago, Hurricane Game said: Forgive my ignorance, but was this person ran over? No, but his ultimate fate is unknown. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 1989 will be remembered for Beijing and not Berlin In the euphoria that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall, the elite consensus in the west was that the fall of the Soviet Union proved that autocracies could not succeed economically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 Recently declassified British wires from Hong Kong estimate the death toll at 10,000 (others place it at 4,000). The Chinese military mowed down every protester they could find, going through the piles of bodies and bayoneting the injured as they begged for their lives. Then, they drove APCs, tanks, and trucks through the streets, turning all of the bodies into "pie," which allowed them to bring in graders/scoopers to plow the human pie into piles more easily and take it away. I can't stand pro-China (government) people today because of this event. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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