"Here's the secret full clip" seems to be quite the trend Over There. Another similar post got a Community Note pointing out that the full clip has been widely known and shown all along, but that now seems to have been removed. It's an interesting meme, I don't think I've noticed it before?
The thread unwittingly demonstrates how very low the knowledge baseline is in those circles. "You thought he was brutally massacred." No, because he famously disappeared afterwards? I'd recommend books, but they could start with the Wiki page.
It's fascinating that of all the things they could have latched onto to challenge orthodox Tiananmen narratives, they've picked something this flimsy. Testament to the gravity of the images, I guess; and shows how lost they get in the absence of a CCP line to follow when the CCP line is silence.
Another angle on Tank Man, just before the confrontation. The photographer, Terril Jones, didn't realise what he'd captured till weeks later. archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.n...
