Never has such a huge story gone down the memory hole quicker than Tiananmen Square.
GHWB had a lot to do with that.
Never has such a huge story gone down the memory hole quicker than Tiananmen Square. GHWB had a lot to do with that.
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What ever Bush had to do with quashing the story, the media were far more complicit and, even to this day, will not tell nor show the full horror of what Deng’s Mountain Troops did.
The BBC video link I posted gives some notion of the events then is cut short. The long version goes into detail of who what why and the horrible results which, BTW, are a large part of the reason the Chinese people keep their heads down: lesson learned.
FWIW: Looking at images of the long dead tank guy is a nice tidy symbol, but does not even come close to depicting the magnitude of the event, nor the piles of bodies of students, passers by, onlookers, bus riders, reporters, apartment dwellers, medical workers, local troops, etc.
If you want to understand just what a totalitarian government can do, you must watch the long version. I will guarantee after watching it, if you have any sympathies for socialism or communism, you will have lost them all when your eyes stop weeping and you flush your vomit down the toilet.
Buckle up kids because this is where the Traitor Joe Administration is heading sooner or later.