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Old 06-09-2009, 01:43 PM   #1
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Old 06-09-2009, 02:35 PM   #2
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Very cool.

I think the fact that it was released 20 years later adds something extra, I can't find the right word though...
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I guess maybe I am too young to know who the 'tank man' is?
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Old 06-09-2009, 02:52 PM   #4
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I guess maybe I am too young to know who the 'tank man' is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananm...otests_of_1989

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
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There's a video and series of pictures that were taken during the student protests in Tiananmen Square that became very famous, in part because no one seemed to know who "tank man" was at the time. No one knew if he was alive or dead. The images showed a lone man, holding up his hand, in front of a tank. The tank commander wouldn't run him down and "tank man" didn't back down, so one lone man held back the tanks for no one knows how long.
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Old 06-09-2009, 04:58 PM   #6
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There's a video and series of pictures that were taken during the student protests in Tiananmen Square that became very famous, in part because no one seemed to know who "tank man" was at the time. No one knew if he was alive or dead. The images showed a lone man, holding up his hand, in front of a tank. The tank commander wouldn't run him down and "tank man" didn't back down, so one lone man held back the tanks for no one knows how long.
They know how long, you just said they had video. Some bystanders or secret police in plain clothes took him away into the crowd. Here is a decent google vid on the protests.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...FonKqgK-_52WCg
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They know how long, you just said they had video. Some bystanders or secret police in plain clothes took him away into the crowd. Here is a decent google vid on the protests.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...FonKqgK-_52WCg
Just going by what I remembered from the time.
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I guess maybe I am too young to know who the 'tank man' is?
more amazing is that people in China don't know either
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Old 06-09-2009, 03:45 PM   #9
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more amazing is that people in China don't know either
Yeah I was just reading that anything about this is banned in China....

Very interesting. I never knew anything about any of this. Thanks for the Wiki link.
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Old 06-09-2009, 04:40 PM   #10
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Very cool.

I think the fact that it was released 20 years later adds something extra, I can't find the right word though...
Significant reminiscence?
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