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The protests were US-backed attempt at a coup in China. It didn't work. It worked in Chile in 1973. It worked in Indonesia in 1965. It worked in Iran in 1953. It worked in Russia in 1991/1993. But it didn't work in China. They're still sore losers about it. The "democratic" United States loves to overthrow socialist governments through coups and astroturfed popular movements. You can take the time to read "Killing Hope" by William Blum if you give a shit (you don't).

Also the famous "tank man" photograph taken by Jeff Widener, Pulitzer prize winning American journalist, who was allowed into the country by China (despite the fact that it is constantly claimed China "censored" this event, it was covered live by multiple Chinese news channels at the time and international journalists were allowed in to cover it.) was a photograph for a reason. Because an actual review of the video of the event shows that the "brave" man is not run over by the tank. The tank, rather comically, attempts to go around him, and he keeps trying to desperately get run over. But it doesn't work. and eventually some plainclothes citizens escort him away.

Let me give you some "reliable" capitalist sources that agree with me since any source that is non-capitalist is "biased":

BBC NEWS: “I was one of the foreign journalists who witnessed the events that night. There was no massacre on Tiananmen Square” — BBC reporter, James Miles, wrote in 2009.

NY TIMES: In June 13, 1989, NY Times reporter Nicholas Kristof – who was in Beijing at that time – wrote, “State television has even shown film of students marching peacefully away from the [Tiananmen] square shortly after dawn as proof that they [protesters] were not slaughtered.” In that article, he also debunked an unidentified student protester who had claimed in a sensational article that Chinese soldiers with machine guns simply mowed down peaceful protesters in Tiananmen Square.

REUTERS: Graham Earnshaw was in the Tiananmen Square on the night of June 3. He didn’t leave the square until the morning of June 4th. He wrote in his memoir that the military came, negotiated with the students and made everyone (including himself) leave peacefully; and that nobody died in the square.

But did people die in China? Yes, about 200-300 people died in clashes in various parts of Beijing, around June 4 — and about half of those who died were soldiers and cops.

one of the leaders of the protesters openly admitted she was hoping it would turn into a massacre to galvanize people against the government.

Anyway here's a more explicitly anti-capitalist source covering it more in depth:

Every regurgitated meme about this event coming from the west is either bloodthirsty sinophobic propaganda and manufacturing consent for WW3, or it's a lazy oversimplification. But usually it's both.

Feel free to ignore me! (I'm sure you will)

Considering the USA is funding the Israeli genocide against Palestinians, spent 20 years killing civilians in Muslim countries, and always supported the furthest right wing Islamic extremists against the secular and socialist governments of the middle East, Dessalines is correct. ETIM is a US-backed East Turkestan Islamic extremist outfit who were carrying out terrorist attacks in Xinjiang. The Chinese government's deradicalization program is MUCH more successful than the US's strategy of "bomb everyone until they join the extremists out of spite."

it's actually a very old term that was recently revived. Khruschev intervened against CIA-backed fascist "revolutionaries" in Hungary in 1956. This caused a split in the Communist Party of Great Britain. those who supported the USSR's antifascist action in hungary were called "tankies". I'm not joking by the way. Liberals using the term "tankie" today to describe the so called "authoritarian" (antifascist, revolutionary, anti-imperialist) left are totally divorced from the origins of the term. It's just something they picked up. They have no insight into the historical origin of term in CPGB infighting.

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