resistance,tank man,china,mystery Tiananmen Square: The Man Who Stopped the Tank

Tiananmen Square: The Man Who Stopped the Tank

posted by qualm

2 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 3056 views

tags: resistance, tank man, china, mystery

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Documentary about the lone man who stood before the tanks entering Tiananmen Square during the June 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations. He is then pulled back into the crowd, either by friends, fellow demonstrators or government forces - no one knows for sure. And no one knows who he was, to this day. -amazon.com

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This deserves more votes... qualm, I think including "Tiananmen Square" in the title, too, would get this vid the attention it deserves. People are probably skimming past without looking closely enough to see what's what.

written by calvados

| 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Agreed. A better title would help. I almost missed this one myself.

written by H0Ju | 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Agreed on the title, I almost passed this over as a game clip or something. Games I'm not much interested in but this is a good find.

written by drattus

| 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Yeah, bad title for a very world-wide signifigant event.

written by CrushBug | 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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A good heads-up. Title edited.

written by qualm

| 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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I watch a great deal of documentaries, this one is very good, great post qualm.

written by Clayton | 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Tags changed from "resistance,tiananmen square,mystery" to "resistance, tank man, china, mystery" by gold star member joedirt.

written by siftbot

| 2 years 6 months ago | CH

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I saw this many months ago (I think it was posted on reddit too) before I was a member of VS. I am happy to be able to vote this up... great submission!

written by Issykitty

| 2 years 2 months 1 week ago | CH

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Qualifies for *history, *asia and *documentaries

written by maatc

| 1 year 9 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Adding video to channels (Asia, Documentaries, History) - requested by maatc.

written by siftbot

| 1 year 9 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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*promote

written by mauz15

| 6 months ago | CH

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 2:58pm PDT - promote requested by mauz15.

written by siftbot

| 6 months ago | CH

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It is quite ironic and tragic that 1989 protests delayed political reforms indefinitely. The failure to negotiate with protesters peacefully in the first 5 weeks was an excuse to remove the moderate elements of the communist party from power, putting a halt to any hope of political reform following the then recent economic reforms.

I wonder what these protesters think now, knowing that their noble but misguided efforts ended up doing more harm than good in the long run. All they accomplished was to remind the government to invest in non-lethal weapons and riot control training.

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