This is a large album of images from the protests in Beijing in 1989. It gives the historical context for the events leading up to the "tank man" photo, and what happened after.

Warning: blood, gore, visible injuries, death

[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

I uploaded this pictures in my old Xiaomi cloud account. It took almost 100 MB out of 5 GB free space. Other 4.9 GB is taken by Winnie the Pooh pictures and memes about Xi.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

I'll never understand how the tankies can claim it never happened when there's so many pictures like this available.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's pretty amazing how they let that guy just harass a tank for several minutes and even climb on it, then just kinda let him be led away by bystanders.

For some reason growing up I think everyone assumed he got ran over or killed?

https://youtu.be/qq8zFLIftGk

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's also this angle

And this - NSFL

[–] HollandJim@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thanks for this. China keeps trying to wipe away this event by having any image deleted. It needs to be reposted and seen often.

[–] 1371113@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This was the photo in my local newspaper when it happened. Source: local paper boy. (Was greyscale)

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

This man is a fucking hero and deserves to be recognized as such.

[–] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thanks for sharing. Every time I see a picture of the Tiananmen Square massacre I get shivers. That man is one of the most amazing icons of resistance against oppression. I like to think of myself as brave but I'm genuinely skeptical if I'd have the courage to stand in front of a tank that way.

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've seen lots of pictures of Hong Kong protests, and hear about rent protests in Beijing, but haven't seen many photos like this in Beijing proper in the 21st century. Are they that good at scrubbing the web, or did I just miss them?

[–] max_adam@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

China's internet is isolated from the rest of the world. We would be looking at a lot of content created from china if it wasn't like that.