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Posted on July 13, 2008 - Total Views 46573
Tiananmen Square 1989
A hunger strike by 3,000 students in Beijing had grown to a protest of more than a million as the injustices of a nation cried for reform. For seven weeks the people and the People’s Republic, in the person of soldiers dispatched by a riven Communist Party, warily eyed each other as the world waited. When this young man simply would not move, standing with his meager bags before a line of tanks, a hero was born. A second hero emerged as the tank driver refused to crush the man, and instead drove his killing machine around him. Soon this dream would end, and blood would fill Tiananmen. But this picture had shown a billion Chinese that there is hope.
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| Photographer: | Stuart Franklin Magnum |
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(42 votes, average: 4.88 out of 5)
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August 26th, 2008 at 10:37 am
“But this picture had shown a billion Chinese that there is hope.”
What? Was Obama there?
August 26th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Gourry, are you being serious??
..that *was* Obama.
August 26th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Good job on making light of one the bravest acts ever captured on picture. Your lame jokes prove that you’re far better than Obama or this Chinese person standing up to tanks. Please, don’t spare the world of your comments or humor, there would be no way we could live without the commentary of two big morons like you guys.
August 26th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
This photo did not show a billion Chinese people there was hope- it is banned on websites going into China, and it is not allowed in any newspapers or books there. So, unless the people were there and told others (who might find it a little hard to believe, given the massacre) it did not give the Chinese people hope, as most know nothing about any of it happening.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Roneesh… welcome to the internet, you must be new
August 26th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
This is one of those lovely things that the Chinese government says “Never happened”.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:32 am
The people of China saw this, they know about it. There are ways around the Great Firewall and around government censorship of information. Those dealing with it daily know this all too well.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:08 am
I’m actually studying in China right now and looking at this photo. So much for the Great Firewall…
August 27th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Chill out hippies - tanks are cool.
August 27th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Does anyone know his name?
August 27th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Anon has arrived!!
August 27th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Yea, firewall migh be leaky, but dont try to creat a blog about Tibet, Tiennamen, or human rights. Unless you want to later on come back and tell us how nicely the chinese police treated you? I say **** China, **** Russia, **** everyone who doesnt respect HUMAN ******* RIGHTS. Also **** america, cos as much as its better then those two mentioned before “for their people back home”, still abroad it kills for oil. So **** them too.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:58 am
I am soooo happy I am dutch then. The only thing we care about is sex and weed
We don’t **** with other countries, we **** with women from other countries!
August 27th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Does anyone know what happened to him? After the tanks drove around him, he was carried off — but whether by friends or by plain-clothes security I don’t know.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:38 am
if we had more people in the USA that was like this man, our government wouldnt be so corrupt.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
When you become a celebrity you can become like that man, and hardly get a slap on the hand.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
You must all be prepared for the reality that everything you hold dear may one day disappear, and that everything you know, may be a lie.
August 28th, 2008 at 3:12 am
One man is nothing if he’s not being taken seriously. A heroic act of courage, slandered. Look at all these comments. It’s kind of like Che Guevara. A t-shirt? What in the hell? Haha.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:26 am
The incident is exaggerated in the West and understated in China. Don’t trust the media of either side. To find out the truth, befriend a Beijing local and ask.
August 28th, 2008 at 8:05 am
love them or hate them, the chinese communist party is just another dictatorship. there has never been any form of what the west would see as democracy in china; the government, whether imperial or not, has always been very centralised and corrupt either financially or ideologically. the communist party is just one of a long tradition of such systems. tian an mein square, the olympics etc… are all distractions from the fact that, as more and more economic power goes to individual chinese, the safeguards guaranteeing personal wealth against direct interference will become more important. part of these safeguards would be a functional capitalist system and legislation protecting consumers and businesses from bankruptcy or removal of assets by the government. the only guarantees for that are effective representation of individual interest in government office. otherwise, economic growth and transactions will eventually stall and the holes that were papered over blow wide open. china’s population no longer has a political reason for democracy, but an economic one; whereas beforehand, protests were done by students. now, they are more likely to be headed by investors.
give it time; economics will sort it out.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Wouldn’t it have been great if they ran him over on live television?
August 29th, 2008 at 2:06 am
I wonder if this site has legally licensed this image. I don’t think so. This site credits Stuart Franklin of Magnum. Oddly, I personally know the photographer. His name is Jeff Widener, not Stuart Franklin.
This is a great image and the appropriate people need to be credited and compensated for the use of this image.
August 29th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Tony you’re just bitter because non of your work ever gets published.
August 29th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
this was in chinatown. not beijing. i repeat; NOT BEIJING.
china is a peaceloving country, and they work against the american evildoers. this is horrible by the way
August 31st, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Rumor has it that shortly after this photo he was apprehended by undercover chinese security personnel and soon thereafter executed
September 1st, 2008 at 2:02 pm
[...] Tiananmen Square protests [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 6:39 pm
The chinese daredevil I Jump Hi was actually unsure if he could leap the four tanks and aborted the attempt, all ticket monies were refunded in full. If you were a ticket holder and believe you didnt receive your refund, please contact Wun Hunge Lo, of Oh, Hi, Ho, Ltd.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Oh, that silly, haphazard Mr. Magoo. Always getting himself into a sticky situation!
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:21 pm
i bet hes gonna kick their ***!
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
China has some badass taxi’s.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:19 pm
China is an evil communist dictatorship. Their putting on a happy face for the olympics has forever defiled the integrity of the games. No matter how hard you try, you can’t polish a turd. I feel sorry for the Chinese people who have to live under the bootheel of communist domination.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:26 am
this photo inspires me, more so than any other i think. regardless of political leanings, to me, this photo shows what one person can do. what one person can stand for no matter what the cost. truly moving.
September 6th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
now thats one brave slope!
September 7th, 2008 at 5:17 am
yeah, great guy, still sitting in jail if not executed
September 8th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Im going to your contry soon sander, i cant wait to **** your women…
September 8th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
As I watched the recent Olympics this picture kept coming into my head
September 9th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
this was at the olympics?
September 11th, 2008 at 1:35 am
people in china see these pics will feel nothing, they do not care anything relate themself.
September 17th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Today’s American College Students would never show such defiance in the face of certain defeat. That spirit died in the 1970s in the U.S. Revolutions, change if you will, is almost always a product of the bravery and defiance of youth. Once your youth have been pacified…change will be rare.
September 17th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
yes, now its only the little old pink ladies who face the miltary
September 20th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Many self-professed ‘brave souls’ would run and hide rather than attempt what these heros did. For a courty still under lock and key, I admire their urge to rattle the cage ever now and then. It may not happen overnight, but one day the whole structure will crumble.
September 21st, 2008 at 10:50 am
its nothing in Poland’s war state many people died like this, no one made any pictures and no one knows about it, shame.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
why didnt anyone help this poor polish student?
September 27th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I dont know how anyone is supposed to tell who that is, it could be anybody, they dont even show his face! this could be a hollywood studio churnng out propaganda against the innocent Chinese. It is well known that Bushes Grandpa sold heroin to the Chinese.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:26 am
He might still live somewhere in obscurity. A Yankee tank would have made short shrift of him, eh?
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:49 am
This site is not blocked in China, nor are the pictures. Information flows pretty freely here. If anyone is wondering everybody knows about what happened in 1989 here in Beijing, some teachers even teach about it. However, all students here have to go to military training in order to teach the students what the Chinese think is discipline, and most parents view it as boot camp. For Jeff, the uninformed and brainwashed person that believes China is an evil country try living here. It is actually better than America. The crime rate is lower and the people are nicer. Plus people here don’t have a close minded view on the outside world.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Have you been to America or the west?
Fucktard.
I have been to China and sure, the people are friendly and know a little bit about the outside world, but thats where tourists go,
Now, in remote China they know **** all about Europe and the west,
they are oppressed!
Communism doesn’t work!
“Some people are more equal the others”
George Orwell
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:19 am
there was a girl from china in my world civ. class and she refused to believe this happened.
she had never even heard of the Tiananmen Square protests.
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
To say that the Chinese didnt know about this is a load of bollocks, it was a massive national scandal that the whole country got involved in, and as for the guy, he was 19 and a student that was killed by the army for standing up to the tanks.
October 25th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
An English Bloke…I have actually lived in rural China for two months with a local family and I grew up between England, America, and the UAE. The reason that many rural villages know very little about the West is that many do not have the opportunity to attend school past the 9th grade for the school system is so poor. It is not that they are oppressed rather their is a lack of funding available. In America many people know very little about the outside world as well. Most people could not name the 5 neighbouring countries to Iraq if they tried, the types of governments found in Europe, or speak another language with fluency. If you knew a little more about the Chinese system of government you would know that it is more of a socialist country than a communist country. “Some people are more equal than others?” Where in the world would you find equality? I am interested where in China did you go? Do you speak Chinese?
October 31st, 2008 at 12:01 am
Tanks very much.
October 31st, 2008 at 2:51 am
I’d hit it, oh wait, that was for the 5 year old mother =(
October 31st, 2008 at 10:03 pm
leave all of your retarded comments on /b/, not this.
November 5th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
was this person retarded? how come he is in the way? Dont they have croswalks? he could get run over like that.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
where is he going?
November 12th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
no wonder the whole world hates America, look what they are doing to the poor Chinese people! and now they try to ruin Chinese economics by having the CIA put melamine in food and blame it on China! shame on USA
November 16th, 2008 at 11:41 am
false picture. he’s just playing “simon says” with the army
November 18th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Barbie you are the most stupid ******* i’ve ever known. READ BOOKS AnD YOU MIGHT KNOW SOMETHING!!!
November 18th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Yes i’m the most stupid human ever. I dont know anything. i should be killed.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
me too, Im stupid too!me too guys, me too! I wanta play! me stupid too!
November 20th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
me too i’m the most stupid of all of us!
November 20th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
no i’m the most stupid human ever created!
November 20th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Yes you are all stupid. you too fake Poopoo.
November 20th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
no wait, me too, Im stupid too!
November 20th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
no fake Poopoo, you cant play, this is only for those who have proven their worth upon the field of idiocy. Go home and work on it
November 20th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
I stupid Poopoo i play to please!
November 26th, 2008 at 9:14 am
HEY i’m the most *** person here because i use other peoples names!
December 4th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
poopoo peepee caca
December 13th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
why no like poopoo no more? poopoo sad….
December 18th, 2008 at 4:42 am
he aint moving til he gets his marlboros….
December 23rd, 2008 at 9:11 pm
[...] THIS! One man CAN make a difference. __________________ "Always use words that are sweet and subtle, You might be eating them tomorrow" [...]
December 30th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
these Godless communists must one day face a wrath such as has befell no race before, my heart cries for the pain they must suffer, oh repent you foolish and vainglorious ones, repent before the Day of the Lord comes upon you all unawares.