Definitely. It was still an atrocity. No two ways about it. It’s just also an atrocity that the West has grabbed onto to push a broader propagandized anti-communist narrative.
Both of those things are true. I am a socialist and I have zero problem saying that Tiananmen, based on my understanding of the historical accounts I’ve read, was an atrocity and a very bad mishandling of events by the army/government.
Yeah 200 people is a massacre, even if we take the official Chinese account at face value
Definitely. It was still an atrocity. No two ways about it. It’s just also an atrocity that the West has grabbed onto to push a broader propagandized anti-communist narrative.
Both of those things are true. I am a socialist and I have zero problem saying that Tiananmen, based on my understanding of the historical accounts I’ve read, was an atrocity and a very bad mishandling of events by the army/government.