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Student protesters dancing at Tiananmen Square before the massacre, Beijing, China, 1989 (lemmy.world)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre

The protests lasted over a month; the massacre ended them in a flood of state-sponsored murder.

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[–] Losdostres@lemmy.world 68 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Have always been curious what happened to those two dancing.

[–] CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago

Same. Every time I see it, I think about that

[–] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Ground up into paste and scraped off the ground.

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

In communist heaven.