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I'm posting this photo because 35 years later, people in China and Hong Kong can't. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] feedum_sneedson -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was very different to the generally accepted version, as some recently declassified USA diplomatic cables confirm. The official position of the US government is that there was no killing in the actual square. I was extremely surprised as well.

[–] Ibaudia 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes but hundreds of people still died, the precise location down to the city block is not material to the symbolic meaning of the event.

[–] feedum_sneedson -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It was terrible, but the generally held belief that thousands of people were machine-gunned down in Tiananmen Square then run over by tanks and turned into paste and washed down the drain doesn't appear to have been the case. People swear they've seen footage of it and everything. I've said before, four dead students in Ohio was enough to be an atrocity, so I'm not trying to minimise the importance of the event.