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There were both protestor deaths as well as PLA personnel deaths (which outnumbered protestor death, actually). But even the US diplomat who was present through the whole event said that there were riots and riot control, but not a massacre.
It's only almost 40 years later that the continuous lying about history has twisted people's perception of what actually happened.
Even American newspapers didn't call it a massacre until much later lmao. Probably because the evidence of many of the protestors meeting with American officials before the riots was readily available.
Thankfully, such protests/colour revolutions are impossible now in China, so no regime change can be carried out by the US
Pla deaths outnumbered protestor deaths? Jeez, what're you smoking? Even the Chinese govt didn't claim that. And why are you thankful that 'protests are impossible now'? Do you truly relish the political disenfranchisement of the populace so much? Smh my head
The working classes are in power in the PRC, not the opposite. They also have sovereignty over their internet and media, rather than letting western countries foment regime change.
It's cool how you deny the agency and personhood of the protestors by outright stating that they were all plants by 'western countries'. Very enlightened!
Not all of the rioters were, but the leaders of the student protestors were. The protests had a wide range, from people protesting Reform and Opening Up, to the students who were protesting it for not going far enough and liberalizing the economy. Either way, the rioters failed, and modern Chinese citizens are happy that they did.