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A Question About That Guy and Those Tanks
Did he get crushed by the tanks? I was too young to even be aware of what happend in Tianamen square when it happend, and to be honest Ive never done much reading into it.
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Did he get crushed by the tanks? I was too young to even be aware of what happend in Tianamen square when it happend, and to be honest Ive never done much reading into it. -
No, but they got him later and he disappeared iirc.Long time member @ Apolyton
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He kicks ass whoever he is/was. Its gotta take some massive cojones to put yourself in that situation.
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He was not crushed. Someone rushed out and pulled him from in front of the tanks. My understanding is he was later caught and executed (a few years down the line).
The interesting thing about this is that the tanks refused to crush him, and kept trying to go around him. He kept moving in their way, but they would not kill him or physically restrain him so they could get past.
Local elements of the People's Liberation Army had sympathy for the Tiannamen protestors, and it wasn't until elements from the West of China were pulled in that the CCP could order a crack down. This is what made the situation so dangerous for the government, they were losing control of the army.
It is without a doubt, one of the most inspiring acts of humanity.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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the gun who drives the tank probably has to clean the tracks as well
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I didn't hear about the execution, but otherwise, my recollection is the same a che's.
One local army unit was ordered in to break up the demonstration, but when the people of Beijing begged it not to, the unit refused. They were ordered out and another outside division was brought into do the dirty work.
Someday, I hope to see a statute of the guy. Single handedly facing down those tanks shows how much people desire liberty.Comment
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Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Japher!
"Someday, I hope to see a statute of the guy. Single handedly facing down those tanks shows how much people desire liberty."
I honor that guy, a truly great man.Long time member @ Apolyton
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Originally posted by Japher
That dude had a spear in his pocket, and that's why the tanks were scared - FACT!
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I hate to say it, but I don't think what the man did was hugely special. Lots of people make stands for freedom. He just did it in a very visible place.
Think about it...if you were a 1989 China man would you not do the same thing he did?
He himself is only as much a hero as the rest of us that cherish freedom, and a symbolic statue would be a great honor, but we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves.meet the new boss, same as the old bossComment
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Alot of guys didn't go stand in front of tanks that day. You'll notice there isn't a crowd with him.Long time member @ Apolyton
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He became the butt of a nasty but cynically funny joke some years later.
"Did you know that someone finally identified that guy who stood in front of the column of tanks just before Tiananmen square"
"What was his name?"
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I've heard a number of different accounts of what happened to him. The offical line is, apparently, that he nothing was done against him, lives as a private citizen somewhere, but refuses to see the media.
It's also been said that the regime never found out who he was, and that no-one knows what's happened to him.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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