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  • There's also a bigger picture with Tank Man, that shows the mostly empty square the tanks were leaving, with a handful of soldiers and bikes.

    And a bunch of other photos showing the battle that took place in the surrounding streets, with cops that had been lynched and burned and protesters gunned down.

    The evidence disproves the western narrative of tanks machine-gunning protesters inside the square, then liquefying bodies, that were then burnt and washed down the drain (and getting stopped by Tank Man on the way out).

    That's not to say the Chinese claims should be taken at face value, but nothing I've seen contradicts their claim of 300 dead and several thousand wounded.


  • You’d think they’d choose more violence and death to show the “massacre” that went on in Tiananmen but it’s always just pictures of students standing around or marching and the tank man.

    There are some pretty gory pictures of the battle that happened in the surrounding streets. But there's burnt out police vehicles too, so it kinda contradicts the image of a million peaceful protesters getting mowed down by machine guns and then run over.






  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.mltochapotraphouseBig if true
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    1 month ago

    I'm not sure how credible this is, Carrier Strike Group 2 has a carrier, 3 cruisers and 5 destroyers, that's 30 CIWSs between them, plus all the anti-missile missiles. I'd want to see some evidence before I believed it.