eli5: what is the context and the full story of the man infront of a tank video/picture
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OP. I think everyone else has covered the theory a damn sight better than I could. There’s one piece I’d like to add though. The *peaceful protestors* who were killed, and rest assured there were many regardless of anybody’s understanding, were killed in the most awful of ways. The government was known to have used flamethrowers to an enormous extent. The one that haunts me though is that they used the tanks to repeatedly drive and reverse over people (who may not initially have been dead) until they were sufficiently able to be washed down the drain with hosepipes. Drain. With. Hosepipes.
The CCP sufficiently scared those that survived that they daren’t talk about it. Now they deny it ever existed.
“Tank Man” would certainly have died in the most awful way (and he’d have expected to do so with his visible yet peaceful dissent) but he stood in front of a line of tanks to make sure at least the people there at the time knew how he felt about this. It just so happened that the image was captured by the rest of the world.
May we all be just a fraction as brave.
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