SpaceCadet

It is an iconic picture that is representative for the courage of the people protesting, as well as for the bloody repression that occurred. Tanks were used against protestors, and not even the Chinese government denies that hundreds of people lost their lives on that day.

You feeling the need to "correct" me on tankman, just makes you an ackshually-ing neckbeard.

What? Do you believe everyone in a country has identical political views?

You're a bit dim aren't you? The parent post that I replied to claimed that Gorbachev was a traitor who went against the will of the people, I said the USSR wasn't wel known for respecting the will of the people in the first place, and here you are giving an example of when the USSR actually did respect the will of the people ... when Gorbachev was in power.

So my conclusion is that Gorbachev must exist in a state of superposition, where he is both things at once.

The GDR was a member of the USSR.

What does the G in GDR stand for?

Gorbachev

Ah Schrödinger's Gorbachev, both a great respector of the will of the people, as well a traitor who went against the will of the people.

However, its the GDR Communist Chairman Erich Honecker that ultimately changed policy that resulted in reunification.

Then why did you comment on a post that was about the USSR?

I explicitly said that the degree of repression was probably overboard and unnecessary, and a dark episode in Chinese history.

Yet, here you are, completely triggered and feeling the need to argue and bending over backwards to defend China over a single picture of a lego figurine that I posted.

You could have just agreed that using tanks against protestors is indeed Very Bad™, like a normal fucking person. So yeah, of course I'm going to ridicule you, you daft cunt.

dissolved the USSR against the will of the ~~people~~ Russians

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Armenian_independence_referendum
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Azerbaijani_independence_referendum
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Estonian_independence_referendum
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Georgian_independence_referendum
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Latvian_independence_and_democracy_referendum
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Lithuanian_independence_referendum
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Turkmen_independence_referendum
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_independence_referendum
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_State_Sovereignty_of_the_Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic

Seems to be just about everybody wanted to leave the USSR.

Excuse me, I have a question. Who was the leader of the USSR when this happened?

Yet here you are 😘

There are pictures of tankman climbing the tank to have a chat with the crew

Oh wow, so I wonder what happened to Tank Man afterwards. He must be pretty famous in China then for starring in such an iconic picture. Has anyone spoken to him afterwards? No? Why's that?

military violence against protestors happened outside the Tiananmen square

Oh yes, my bad, that totally makes it ok. Massacres outside the square don't count. ☺️

So let me get this clear: your position is that I am CIA and that the Tiananmen square massacre did not happen?

Is that correct, or am I missing something? Feel free to use "arguments" to explain yourself.

Yes, the USSR, famous for respecting the will of the people ...

https://archive.ph/2020.07.12-074312/https://imgur.com/a/AIIbbPs

The group of protesters remained steadfast, even in the face of annihilation. Shots rang out, innocents were struck, and people began to die. Nonetheless — there was power in numbers, and solidarity that allowed them to find courage — and thousands joined hands as bullets flew. “Students linked arms but were mown down,” wrote Donald. “APCs then ran over the bodies time and time again to make, quote ‘pie’ unquote, and remains collected by bulldozer.”

As if this wasn’t atrocious enough, the government’s criminal and brutal activity that day got even worse. With no regard for the families of these victims, not to mention their identities, what was left of them was disposed of — in an unspeakably callous manner.

“Remains incinerated and then hosed down drains,” Donald wrote.

Have you ever watched this, tankboy?

https://archive.ph/2020.07.12-074312/https://imgur.com/a/AIIbbPs

I especially liked the bit about using tanks to make human pie, and then flushing the pie down the drains.