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For the sake of combating the narrative, this album shows the truth of what happened during the student protests in China in 1989, including the context of the "Tank Man" photo:
https://archive.ph/7Tdzh
Warning: blood, gore, visible injuries, death.
The lie that no one was killed by the CCP should be repudiated at every opportunity.
The CCP would prefer that you are only aware of the "Tank Man" photo, that you don't fit it into its larger context. They would prefer that you not discuss the horrific brutality they created when they used their military to suppress the voices of their own citizens, or the absolute disaster that Maoism brought to China. They would prefer that you forget that they repeated that brutality in Hong Kong. They would prefer that you forget the whole thing.
Fuck them.
Even the CCP admits that some protesters were killed. Wild that Western tankies dial up the denialism even past that.
They're edgy tweens, just block them and move on. They'll learn if someone doesn't slap them to death before they hit their twenties.
Man, I remember when I was in school the edgy tweens and teens who claimed to be communist didn't say stupid shit like denying actual history... They just wore red berets and Che Guevara t-shirts, completely oblivious to how that was supporting capitalism.