Student protesters dancing at Tiananmen Square before the massacre, Beijing, China, 1989

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Student protesters dancing at Tiananmen Square before the massacre, Beijing, China, 1989
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Tankies: It was a violent CIA colour revolution

Students: dance

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colour revolution

Which translates roughly to “a revolution we dont like”.

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Literally in a “debate” with one of those clowns today. It’s hilarious!

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i see them trying to take over political memes recently.

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Most moderators in the Fediverse, even on non-tankie instances, treat tankies with kid gloves.

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thats true, i was wondering why that community isnt clamping down on the sublte takeover of lefty tankies memes.

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It really is crazy when you get older and realize the LENGTHS China has gone to scrub this whole massacre from history. It gets many people jailed just for mentioning it.

This makes me wonder if the January 6th insurrection caused by Donald Trump and MAGA will be the same way.

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they already sanewashed it, plus most of the MSM barely cover it anymore.

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I think the tankies are only allowed to call it “Tiny Man Square” now. So if you want to get past their filter…..

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95% of self identifying Marxist-Leninists just lost connection to this site forever

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OMG, all those nice people were steamrolled, weren’t they?

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My understanding of the ML-version of events is that there were different protests happening at the same time. One was led by the students but there were others led by farmers, workers, etc in the same vicinity. The students are depicted as generally Marxist while the workers were asking for liberal reforms and they were the ones that got massacred. Without an independent media on the ground it is hard for me to know what’s what though. Point is, this image doesn’t contradict with the ML-version of events.

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My understanding of the ML-version of events is that there were different protests happening at the same time. One was led by the students but there were others led by farmers, workers, etc in the same vicinity. The students are depicted as generally Marxist while the workers were asking for liberal reforms and they were the ones that got massacred.

Not that that the notion of two protests (instead of one protest with multiple groups) has any relation to reality, but… holy fucking shit, how would that be better?

Without an independent media on the ground it is hard for me to know what’s what though.

There was independent media on the ground at the time. There are numerous eyewitnesses. There is ample photographic evidence.

Point is, this image doesn’t contradict with the ML-version of events.

The ML version of events that you presented, which, what, swaps out a massacre of student protesters for a massacre of workers?

The People’s Tank Treads.

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🤣 Exactly what I was asking myself. If their justification is “this group wasn’t massacred, this group was instead”, how the fuck is that better? I never understand how people can be so willing in justifying authoritarian regimes and massacres…

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how about the version where they bought in rural soldiers to come in to kill the protestors when the urban soldiers refused?

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