A couple dancing at Tiananmen Square before the tanks rolled in, 1989
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A couple dancing at Tiananmen Square before the tanks rolled in, 1989
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The calm before the storm
Great photo. Of people being free & happy.
I hope they survived the onslaught from the PRC and PLA.
No social credit score for you.
My parents lived in China when this happened. Years later, I’m talking to a Chinese coworker and casually mention Tian An Men. Her face goes blank and she says, “Wait, what?”
She had grown up in China and had no idea this had happened.
This photo was taken on May 22, 1989 after protestors had occupied Tiananmen Square for 9 days.
The Tiananmen Square massacre took place on the night of June 3 and the morning of June 4.
The [infamous tank man photo](/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/nrw3f8/tank_man_1989/) was taken on June 5.
FUCK THE CCP.
and people in the U.S.wont‘ fucking vote
those people were attacked, shot and run over by tanks
and less than 6 out of 10 U.S.citizens even bother to FUCKING VOTE
What a cool country it culd’ve been instead of this Orwellian nightmare. If…
Odds are most likely everyone in this picture was killed.
Fuck the clown looking Winnie the Poop Wish ordered dictator they have in China
Heartbreaking to think about what might have happened to them… I can only admire their bravery and courage.
Fuck the CCP!
Let’s continue to remember and publicize!
Soooo so so so sad. China is still a toxic terror and treats their citizens like dogshit.. fuck them and hope they can be free one day…
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When courage looks like joy.
Whenever someone says “What about Gandi? He drove the British from India nonviolently, so why does anyone need a gun?”. I think of this. Nonviolence can only work if your enemy isn’t willing to kill each and every last one of you, and some others you might have talked to, just to be sure they got them all. Stay strapped.
The absolutely horrifying blissful unawareness.
God I hope they lived.
I remember that age when the world was full of possibilities and the hormones were flying and life was just perfect and our whole lives were ahead of us.
Many of these youngsters never saw another sunrise. They were murdered in the streets of their own country by their own countrymen on the authority of their own Government. We cannot allow them to be forgotten.
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The original *Dance Dance Revolution*
It’s hard even to imagine what the world would look like today if CCP leaders had looked at the teeming crowds and decided, “Hey, maybe all of those students and laborers have a point. Rather than crush them in both body and spirit, let’s bring them into the decision-making process for the sake of our people’s future.”
**Edit:** Downvoted. Interesting. By someone, I assume, in support of suppressing predominantly peaceful protest through the application of overwhelming force?
Everyone in this photo died 33 years ago today. Blasted to pieces or run over by tanks, and what was left of them hosed into the sewers.
Fuck China.
Not a cellphone in sight, just people living in the moment.
Somehow Americans failed to learn anything from this atrocity except “China bad”
Was fashion the reason why they were there ?
Fucking awesome picture. Beyond precious. This is why I love photography. It captures a moment in time, and sometimes that moment is something like this.
A glimpse into an alternative timeline. Think what China could be like today if the decision for total oppression of the citizens hadn’t come down.
All of them are dead. The few alive escaped to Hong Kong and Taiwan where they held memorial of this massacre annually.
Until the CCP enforced the national security law in Hong Kong in 2018, no memorial or gathering is allowed anymore. Freedom of speech in HK is dead. China completely violated the Sino-British Joint Declaration and ruined the lives of 8 million people in Hong Kong.
Younger generations of Chinese have no idea about this important historical event. Thanks to years of CCP’s brainwashing, they think this is some kind of western propaganda.
This is why the rest of the world rather have USA as the world police. You just can’t trust China.
A couple of KIDS. These were innocent students.
Out of all the photos to emerge from the Tiananmen Square massacre this is the one that always leaves the biggest lump in my throat. I wonder what became of them. I hope that they survived.
I wish I could peek at the world where the people of Iran stopped the religious backwards rush in 1978/1979 and where those people in China were able to succeed in 1989.
Photo by Mark Avery – AP