eli5: what is the context and the full story of the man infront of a tank video/picture
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Recently, sources have challenged long-standing beliefs about that narrative. There were protests all over China that day. There were protesters in Tianamen. Protesters did die that day. Government officials did open fire in Tianamen that day. But according to recent sources online, the idea that protesters died in Tianamen that day is based largely on the testimony of one BBC reporter who later walked back the claim.
And, some online sources hold, the democracy that protesters wanted was closer to the Barefoot Doctors and Iron Rice Bowl of pre-Deng China than to, say, George H. W. Bush. Allegedly, many protesters were waving copies of Mao’s little red book and protesting the so-called capitalist roaders of the post-Mao era.
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