TIL former Chinese President Yang Shangkun told his doctor before his death that the crackdown on June 4 had been the Communist Party's "most serious mistake in its history, a mistake he couldn't correct but which would eventually be corrected." He had initially opposed the use of force on students.

There are pictures of dead and injured people, but none of the ones I've seen provide enough context

Then you provided pictures of dead soldiers who were "presumably" killed by the protestors. In addition, you said:

Each gunshot noise recorded on audio was not necessarily aimed at a person.

Oh the Irony about your so called "context"

Pictures of burning tanks, attacked by Molotov cocktails

Ever consider why they brought out tanks if their intent wasn't to harm the people protesting?

Denial is a sign of failure

I see that China denying the existence of Muslim "reeducation camps" is failure for not covering it up well enough.

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