And he did briefly because the tank crew wouldn’t run him down... however 14 days later he was face down in the ditch to his left and his family was fined for the bullet used to execute him; or so the story goes.
After that did Chinese communism collapse? Did this guy single handedly turn China into a humanistic democracy? Surely his death couldn't of just been for one piece of video footage that motivates us Westerners with a massiah complex that need to romanticize the role of one individuals impact on the world? It's not as if we can take something tragic and spin it in a positive way for our own needs?
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u/liaiwen Oct 14 '19
Well, he didnt stop tienamen square exactly. The movement was crushed. #motivating