The full Tiananmen Square Massacre ‘Tank Man’ photo, is more powerful than the cropped version.

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dgriffx on April 13rd, 2021 at 17:19 UTC »

An even more powerful version is when they show the aftermath where they're hosing all of the dead students off the street after the tanks turned them into meat crayons. But it's too NSFL to be commonly published.

edit: nsfl link to gallery

GameDoesntStop on April 13rd, 2021 at 17:24 UTC »

I don’t know about others, but for a long time I was under the impression that he was stopping them on their way to the square... it was actually even braver: he was stopping them when they were trying to leave, after the massacre, knowing full-well that they had no qualms killing peaceful civilians.

Here is an interesting video of someone going to the square decades later, on the anniversary of the massacre, and asking people if they know what day it is. Most or all clearly know, but nobody will say. The very mention of it is suppressed over there.

choirboy17 on April 13rd, 2021 at 18:27 UTC »

In the cropped version you can see that he's holding groceries. I think there's a video where he actually waves the grocery bags at the tanks.