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Why did the Tiananmen Square Massacre Happen?

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Casual Historian

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@CasualHistorian
@CasualHistorian Жыл бұрын
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@long-hair-dont-care88.
@long-hair-dont-care88. Жыл бұрын
It's almost like human beings natural default setting is cunt. If only some really cool guy about 2000 year's ago learned this shared it an it's soultions to be retold in book from.... If only.
@Grace.allovertheplace
@Grace.allovertheplace 2 ай бұрын
Hi, 20:40 also according to the transcript that a high official in the communist party smuggled out in 2001 (maybe it’s 2002) and was verified as legitimate by Andrew Nathan a professor from Columbia university and a couple of other experts in 🇨🇳Xiao Xang (I apologize if I’ve misspelled his name) who was then the head of the Communist Party and head of the government didn’t want to use force, but according to this transcript he lost the power struggle and was overruled by Dong, (Dong had been convinced by the hardliners to crack down on the students). Anyway, when Xiao went out to the students and asked them to go home, he was very emotional because he knew he no longer had any power and he knew that Dong would declare martial law the following day, Xiang lost the power because he didn’t go along with this decision. As far as I am aware Xiao was for a freer press and a more open system (as I think you already mentioned) Respectfully, Grace🩰
@dr.woozie7500
@dr.woozie7500 Жыл бұрын
I am good friends with someone who was at Tiananmen in the month leading up to June 4. He was a student at one of the prestigious universities in Beijing and he traveled to other cities to rally students for the protest. He got sick in June and left a few days before the violent crackdown, where a lot of his peers died. The weeks prior to June 4th there was a massive mobilization of 200k+ troops to the Beijing area, more than the amount of troops China sent to Vietnam in 1979. Most of the soldiers sent to crush protests were from rural areas and pretty much brainwashed by the government to kill their fellow man. The soldiers believed they were being sent to crush an armed rebellion. The man who gave orders for the violent crackdown was General Yang Baibing, Deng Xiaoping never gave specific orders except “clear the square” as to make sure he never got the blame. It should be noted some soldiers refused to cooperate and attack the students and the commander of the 38th Group Army, Xu Qinxian, was court martialed and jailed for 5 years. The aftermath was extremely brutal due to martial law and “shoot on site” orders and a number of soldiers had been killed during the confrontation (either beat to death or burned alive). The media in China blamed the violence on the students and showed images on TV of charred corpses of soldiers and burnt military vehicles. The incident was pretty much swept under the rug after that and most people in China know the June 4th incident as a violent riot that the government crushed. There’s no clear number but the deaths were in the thousands and 10,000+ dissidents were sent to camps or imprisoned. To clarify, June 4th incident in China is censored only on the surface level. Chinese libraries and scholars have easy access to these records. Looking up June 4th isn’t illegal it’s just very difficult to do so on the internet.
@yotaiji012
@yotaiji012 Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@long-hair-dont-care88.
@long-hair-dont-care88. Жыл бұрын
How easily in the modern day a nations people are so completely misinformed about something so we'll know to most other's..... Yup glad this couldn't ever happen to my nation or people because we're special. 😂
@colin3424
@colin3424 Жыл бұрын
​@@long-hair-dont-care88. Yes this is what I hate the most about my fellow westerners, laws are proposed or passed that disarm us or take away rights and people say "why are you worried our govt would never do that you conspiracy theorist!" Meanwhile if you back in history at all you see so many cases of govts adopting radical ideologies and massacring their own citizens. The Holocaust wouldn't have happened if every time the gestapo kicked open a door a Jew put some buckshot through his face.
@seekingabsolution1907
@seekingabsolution1907 Жыл бұрын
I don't know why you felt the need to say the soldiers were "basically brainwashed by the government to kill their fellow many dude that's what all soldiers who have ever lived have done. That's their fucking job. You don't like indoctrinating people to kill dissenters to government policy then you don't like soldiers.
@seekingabsolution1907
@seekingabsolution1907 Жыл бұрын
An interesting evaluation thank you.
@llq5081
@llq5081 Жыл бұрын
I want to add that normal citizens, especially in Beijing also attended heavily in the final days of the movement. The western part of Beijing, having more sparse buildings, saw heavy fighting between the Army and citizen militia. The eastern part of the city, the old worker neighborhoods, are even more violently suppressed by the state.
@user-fd1ne3jj3r
@user-fd1ne3jj3r Жыл бұрын
Okay, okay, it sounds like you were there at the time
@_xTASY
@_xTASY Жыл бұрын
20:46 "You are not like us. We are already old. It's does not matter to us anymore." That's exactly why a gerontocracy is doomed to fail. We need leaders that give a shit about the future, not just themselves.
@Willys-Wagon
@Willys-Wagon Жыл бұрын
I think that is mistranslation, we was actually said is that we (the old) does not matter anymore.
@_xTASY
@_xTASY Жыл бұрын
@@Willys-Wagon I can see what he was trying to say in that case, but their actions ultimately had the opposite effect lol
@Willys-Wagon
@Willys-Wagon Жыл бұрын
@@_xTASY The statement taken as a whole was meant to be a plea to resolve the protest by peaceful means. Despite how it ended, there were many who worked towards a different outcome. My personal opinion aside, I have enormous respect for those who have the conviction to carry out their beliefs.
@XSilver_WaterX
@XSilver_WaterX Жыл бұрын
The party leaders are no longer themselves who can sire children and establish new education building but more like the old Chinese pantheons getting revenge against the entire nation for "abandoning" them and using their hosts as generals for an open war they CANNOT win. Especially on how many other nations have their own peaceful cultural revolutions and spiritual understandings, but blood is sometimes necessary for those changes, as well as a clear mind and contract.
@zappababe8577
@zappababe8577 Жыл бұрын
I remember a holiday programme saying, in an upbeat, bright-and breezy voice "Because of the massacre at Tiananmen Square, prices for holidays in China are much lower now!" Talk about being heartless, and taking advantage of other's misery! Plus, any money spent in China at that time, would go to line the pockets of those in the regime who orchestrated such an atrocity!
@chidoman1595
@chidoman1595 Жыл бұрын
-100,000,000,000 Social Credit
@ananmuadi31
@ananmuadi31 Жыл бұрын
Based
@ikengaspirit3063
@ikengaspirit3063 Жыл бұрын
That's not what social credit actually is.
@falconmclenny7284
@falconmclenny7284 Жыл бұрын
​@@ikengaspirit3063can't buy a home, can't rent, can't travel, can't do heaps of sheit in China with a bad score, so what exactly is it then friend?
@Darkest_matter
@Darkest_matter Жыл бұрын
​@@falconmclenny7284your score only goes down 10 points if you say something bad about the government.
@Josh-hv2ze
@Josh-hv2ze Жыл бұрын
@@Darkest_matteryou’re score shouldn’t go down at all if you critique the government
@ZeroResurrected
@ZeroResurrected Жыл бұрын
Wow. A sponsor that actually directly correlates with the topic of the video
@RemyKingKen
@RemyKingKen Жыл бұрын
I had a professor say the T’s to never speak about in China is Taiwan, Tibet, and Tiananmen Square
@drog.ndtrax3023
@drog.ndtrax3023 2 ай бұрын
They talk about them openly in China - they just don't have a weird, racist American propaganda informed understanding of them.
@theshenpartei
@theshenpartei Жыл бұрын
The Chinese version of google even censored Tiananmen Square massacre and that is disturbing
@tomlxyz
@tomlxyz Жыл бұрын
Does it filter out results?
@Darkest_matter
@Darkest_matter Жыл бұрын
​@@tomlxyzno
@ihatecabbage7270
@ihatecabbage7270 Жыл бұрын
Nope, I can read Chinese despite being a white caucasians. You're making up BS. The information in Chinese about the Tiannamen Square massacre is easily available in Chinese. 不要乱说
@rapeanumadalin2314
@rapeanumadalin2314 9 ай бұрын
what else you could expect from Baidu...especially when Cyberspace Administration of China it's in charge of cof...ahem...you know...the business...I mean...ahem...duty for the nation...
@Veltrosstho
@Veltrosstho 2 ай бұрын
Operation Dragonfly is the name of the project between china and google to censor their search results.
@midimusicforever
@midimusicforever Жыл бұрын
Imagine how differently this could have gone.
@suzanneemry5770
@suzanneemry5770 Жыл бұрын
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@elguido
@elguido Жыл бұрын
I would just like to point out that the use of expanding bullets, while forbidden for war, is extremely common practice in police forces, also in america. It helps prevent over penetration and possible injury of bystanders
@damenwhelan3236
@damenwhelan3236 Жыл бұрын
Because thr state can then be held liable for the aftermath the bullets cause. In war the point is to kyll. That's why blinding or paralysing the enemy on purpose is a war crime. But legal bullets (usually) aren't war crimes.
@HandFromCoffin
@HandFromCoffin Жыл бұрын
That's a good point.. but I was wondering... why did they have these stocks of military caliber hollow-point rounds? they planned for this.
@Badger1776
@Badger1776 Жыл бұрын
@@damenwhelan3236ya hollow points are good for stopping a burglar and not traveling through a wall in your home to potentially hit your family. I’m not sure which side you’re on though…
@damenwhelan3236
@damenwhelan3236 Жыл бұрын
@@Badger1776 Sides don't matter.
@Badger1776
@Badger1776 Жыл бұрын
@@damenwhelan3236 I don’t know how you can be trying to make a point yet not be on any sides but alright.
@StressarNGG
@StressarNGG Жыл бұрын
Never seen someone lose this many social credit points in one video.
@lordgod9958
@lordgod9958 Жыл бұрын
Can't lose social credit points talking about a day where Absolutely Nothing happened
@StressarNGG
@StressarNGG Жыл бұрын
​@@lordgod9958 True, you do have a point there🤔
@genghiskhan5701
@genghiskhan5701 Жыл бұрын
Watched it in my Huwaei phone Its all blacked out
@rapeanumadalin2314
@rapeanumadalin2314 9 ай бұрын
We all live under Chinese Censorship....and you may have even used an Huawei ONT with Wifi capabilities...wich also convert all the traffic data into small secured packets and send them back to Beijing....isn't that great Sir...also while on that phone..don't talk $h¡t about China...cause Huawei is the " child " of the CCP...
@madden8021
@madden8021 2 ай бұрын
This is why I prefer saving more money for a Samsung Phone than a Huawei Phone
@Veltrosstho
@Veltrosstho 2 ай бұрын
​@madden8021 Samsung also censors keywords to keep the chobals in south korea. Nokia makes smart phones, get one.
@GaionSputro
@GaionSputro Ай бұрын
​@@Veltrosstho Nope-kia suck! Vivo better!
@jonathanvillanueva9206
@jonathanvillanueva9206 Жыл бұрын
I’m always saddened by modern Chinese history. I love China it’s history, culture, and people. It seems like it’s closing more by the day but I hope Sun Yat Sen’s dream is finally realized on the mainland one day.
@stevenbaksh5545
@stevenbaksh5545 Жыл бұрын
His economic dream was realized
@user-fd1ne3jj3r
@user-fd1ne3jj3r Жыл бұрын
Sun, cannon
@olentangyriver1191
@olentangyriver1191 Жыл бұрын
Sun Yat-sen was cool
@Darkest_matter
@Darkest_matter Жыл бұрын
Same with Japan too, but in a different way. You think of honour, samurais, ninjas, very respectable... Now you think Yakuza, femboys, prostitute's, oversexualized women, perverts.. exc.
@shiyian
@shiyian Жыл бұрын
@@Darkest_matter war crimes 😊
@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368
@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 Жыл бұрын
Here before this gets struck into oblivion by CCP bots
@basedlindsey
@basedlindsey Жыл бұрын
There was no Tiananmen Square Massacre. I know because I was there and saw everything. Those weren't tanks, they were ponies. Everybody got to take one home, and everybody left singing and happy and it was raining confetti.
@guillemedina7908
@guillemedina7908 Жыл бұрын
You should make a video about Tiananment Square massacre denialism, which is sadly becoming more popular
@worldofdoom995
@worldofdoom995 Жыл бұрын
excellant in depth coverage without making it an hour long.
@Danielst15lm
@Danielst15lm Жыл бұрын
He low key provoking youtube censorship hounds. mad respects!
@ihatecabbage7270
@ihatecabbage7270 Жыл бұрын
Not really, nothing he said is worth censoring. n@zi Germany is censored.
@barcafan1941
@barcafan1941 4 ай бұрын
对于所有质疑政府的人来说,请注意,权力掌握在群众手中,而不是上层阶级。当您站起来并为您的自由权利而奋斗的适当时机时,您将得到支持。准备好!你的国际自由权利正在酝酿之中,准备好为了你的血统而牺牲自己…….
@jiachengwu4185
@jiachengwu4185 2 ай бұрын
Awkward machine transition, to say the least. If you want good propaganda, hire a native speaker
@barcafan1941
@barcafan1941 Ай бұрын
@@jiachengwu4185 Transition? Don't you mean translation...? Clearly you aren't an intelligent person to say the least. Learn to communicate, learn to understand humanity... clearly communism is a failure. And clearly this response is either a bot, or a someone of a low mental capacity replying...🤣🤣🤣 Good luck with your people surviving the next phase of human evolution😅😂😂🤭☠️☠️☠️☠️ #fight against what is correct, don't be a sheep...your people depend on you. CCP doesn't care about you, they only care about CCP surviving also known as the elite operating the Chinese Communist government.
@maeson676
@maeson676 Жыл бұрын
Your commentary is always top-notch. Keep up the good work, man. Your health improvements are obvious, too. Kudos.
@aregularperson7573
@aregularperson7573 Жыл бұрын
-10000000000000 Social credit score
@tomlxyz
@tomlxyz Жыл бұрын
The social credit score is actually closer to something like a credit rating
@pogisi_earl_8104
@pogisi_earl_8104 Жыл бұрын
LMAO
@b0de_xd
@b0de_xd Жыл бұрын
What massacre?
@Supersurfer12
@Supersurfer12 2 ай бұрын
+999 Social Credits
@PoyimaMedia
@PoyimaMedia Жыл бұрын
imagine doing this nowadays, all those bad government decisions. it would be crazy *cof*Argentinian Government *cof*
@xanmontes8715
@xanmontes8715 11 ай бұрын
Tell me more
@GaionSputro
@GaionSputro 2 ай бұрын
​@@xanmontes8715 Falkland war.
@billyhighfill
@billyhighfill Жыл бұрын
Never let #china forget. You don’t get to erase murder.
@aufumy
@aufumy Жыл бұрын
What about Waco, seems like most people have forgotten
@garrysekelli6776
@garrysekelli6776 Жыл бұрын
İ heard about something similar to what the host described but rather than saying that one could buy goods it was required that each household bought certain goods at certain times. Leading in one instance to lots of piles of rotting cabbages being stored on people's balconies.
@user-yy9hk9od9u
@user-yy9hk9od9u 2 ай бұрын
One of the students during the protests held a sign saying "Absolute power corrupts absolutely'. That sign describes China even more so today than in 1989.
@jkc3738
@jkc3738 2 ай бұрын
At that time, Chinese workers' monthly salary was 30 US dollars/month....Students were just dissatisfied with the future....They thought that the system made the country poor...
@kennethng8346
@kennethng8346 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for keeping this alive
@hadithi
@hadithi Жыл бұрын
I appreciate your engaging coverage on this very sensitive issue. Your channel is awesome! Keep up the good work!
@OLDMANWAFFLES
@OLDMANWAFFLES Жыл бұрын
-1,000,000 social credits 😡
@user-fd1ne3jj3r
@user-fd1ne3jj3r Жыл бұрын
Can I ask where to check my social points? I've lived for 30 years and I don't even know
@kenm3943
@kenm3943 Жыл бұрын
​@@user-fd1ne3jj3rAsk the Ministry of State Security(MSS) or the Ministry of Public Safety(MPS) to get your score. If that fails you can bribe a higher up CCP official. You're welcome.
@orbitalpotato9940
@orbitalpotato9940 Жыл бұрын
​​@@kenm3943hose don't exist lmao. Both are fictional organizations.
@BennyRoKo
@BennyRoKo 6 ай бұрын
Why do some people say it’s a hoax?
@Paladin_Krieger
@Paladin_Krieger 5 ай бұрын
Bc they are shills
@Supersurfer12
@Supersurfer12 2 ай бұрын
​@@Paladin_Krieger 👌 Spot on
@GaionSputro
@GaionSputro Ай бұрын
​@@Supersurfer12 china shill-shill-pee.🤣
@nikkidoten3213
@nikkidoten3213 Жыл бұрын
If you think about it. Deng Jaoping could have easily introduced all those reforms to strengthen his own power. Such as term limits- he was never really in power himself. I think all he was, was in charge of the military tbh.
@TheeRomantic
@TheeRomantic Жыл бұрын
I've been waiting and wanted to know why this happened 🙏🏿 thank you for the video
@blueguitar4419
@blueguitar4419 Жыл бұрын
I would say your reasons for Mao inciting the cultural revolution are a bit surface level. Mao was also reacting directly against the Party Leadership who was quickly making him irrelevant and he wanted the youth to become ungovernable by the party, and loyal to him, to teach the party who was really in charge.
@GR3YS0RG4N1CS
@GR3YS0RG4N1CS Жыл бұрын
Based on "trust me bro" 🙄🥱
@leileijoker8465
@leileijoker8465 Жыл бұрын
​@@GR3YS0RG4N1CSit's common knowledge Mao's main motive of lunching the cultural revolution was to take back power from the Liu Shaoqi faction.
@blobfishmnm
@blobfishmnm Жыл бұрын
@@leileijoker8465 so your source is "common knowledge"
@RedBeeZ6983
@RedBeeZ6983 Жыл бұрын
@@blobfishmnmis this information that hard to believe not to mention you can look this up yourself 😂 this generation is doomed man
@blobfishmnm
@blobfishmnm Жыл бұрын
@@RedBeeZ6983 ok well first of all fI someone asks for a source, you don’t just go “no well it’s common knowledge”, also people like Mao, Lenin, and Stalin actively discouraged a cult of personality forming around them
@stupidminotaur9735
@stupidminotaur9735 Жыл бұрын
1. i know 1 army general refused to send his troops in and he had them go around it multiply times and that other army groups either were seen as to sympathy to them so not sent in or they all refused or turned back. 1.5 the troops who went in and shoot were from the north/next to Mongolia. 2. from the amount of dead at hospitals and the amount dead left at the square, the death count is/was in the thousands. we got photos' of the dead mountain left at the square counting that mountain plus the hundreds at each hospital, is where most people get the thousands number.
@dinte215
@dinte215 Жыл бұрын
-Taiwan says 9000 dead -US switches between 500 and 10000 depending on tensions with China (the Brits repeat the American lines and posture) -the Europeans have not come up with a coherent and accepted estimates. So what exactly is the truth, because right now it looks like everyone pulls statistics out of their asses to fit their geopolitical goals.
@onsite7435
@onsite7435 Жыл бұрын
😅😊😊😊😊😊 😊😊
@rapeanumadalin2314
@rapeanumadalin2314 9 ай бұрын
​@@onsite7435+1 extra social credit point for 🤣😅🤣😂 at the comment above, now you are alowed to take the bus and go home and sleep peacefully thinking you have done something for your nation....👍👏👏...the Party is proud of you, Comrade....
@bompingdatwomper
@bompingdatwomper 11 ай бұрын
excellent video! The most comprehensive info on the protest. It was a very complicated time
@_Farbs
@_Farbs Жыл бұрын
It didnt
@L0dG
@L0dG Жыл бұрын
Ooooooh, there goes your social credit score :(
@annastark3786
@annastark3786 Жыл бұрын
I was 18 when this happened and have never forgotten the footage. I didn't know half of this background story though.
@Numba003
@Numba003 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for plugging this video again. I didn't see it last year. I feel like I learned a lot of important information surrounding the massacre and the events leading up to it. God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
@garrysekelli6776
@garrysekelli6776 Жыл бұрын
İmmagine if a bunch of native Americans were murdered by the US military. I'm sure that it would fill the history books. They would probably call it the battle of wounded knee. And i have to look up the date now.
@garrysekelli6776
@garrysekelli6776 Жыл бұрын
December 1890
@christianweibrecht6555
@christianweibrecht6555 Жыл бұрын
I hope all freedom loving citizens of HK manage to immigrate before China is able to be this heavy handed with them
@user-fd1ne3jj3r
@user-fd1ne3jj3r Жыл бұрын
Many people who aspire to the UK have already gone to the UK to receive subsistence allowances, and we share the same stance and are all happy to see it succeed
@Darkest_matter
@Darkest_matter Жыл бұрын
​@@user-fd1ne3jj3rI think the UK is a good balance between socialism and democracy. I can see a way for china to easily implement the same system within a 1 party state. UK is basically a 1 party state anyway. Government has been Tory for 10 years now.
@joebungus3447
@joebungus3447 Жыл бұрын
@@Darkest_matterUK depends on American military protection, UK is not a good example to follow when they are broke😂
@Darkest_matter
@Darkest_matter Жыл бұрын
@@joebungus3447 lool we have a good army and airforce. only way americans can protect us is by dropping their pilots on enemy terriitory to cause an earthquake.
@hiddentruth1982
@hiddentruth1982 Жыл бұрын
the simple answer is students were revolting against the government. The government decided they didn't like it.
@orbitalpotato9940
@orbitalpotato9940 Жыл бұрын
They were protesting against corruption in the government.
@attilamarics3374
@attilamarics3374 Жыл бұрын
@@orbitalpotato9940 They were firebombing military personel and vehicles.
@orbitalpotato9940
@orbitalpotato9940 Жыл бұрын
@@attilamarics3374 yup. They hung them over bridges and torched them alive as well
@rapeanumadalin2314
@rapeanumadalin2314 9 ай бұрын
​@@orbitalpotato9940that was military personnel or citizens who got hanged...?
@orbitalpotato9940
@orbitalpotato9940 9 ай бұрын
@@rapeanumadalin2314 it was unarmed military personnel
@rezarfar
@rezarfar Жыл бұрын
To summarise what happened here: New government comes into power in the 70s and does lots to improve the country over the next decade or so and give more freedoms. This eventually lead to the citizens looking at what they have and what the rest of the world has and saying "we want democracy". This not only scared the government but also angered them, because after all the change and progress that had been made, the citizens still wanted more change (rightfully so, they wanted more freedoms). So the government went very heavy handed with what happened then went to literal fanatic lengths to silence ANY information about it. This obviously had the exact OPPOSITE affect. Basically the government got very emotional about that situation because they where absolutely convinced that the citizens loved them and that everybody was super happy. This wasn't even close to the reality and this fact really angered them.
@GR3YS0RG4N1CS
@GR3YS0RG4N1CS Жыл бұрын
You mean they didn't buy the Chinese students protesting with ENGLISH SIGNS were speaking from a Chinese perspective and not capitulating to the anti-democratic capitalists in the US and western countries? Color me surprised they didn't buy into the US backed color revolution with their English sloganeering and shit... Cope harder.
@Darkest_matter
@Darkest_matter Жыл бұрын
Ironically, complete freedom (dissolution of the government) is the end goal of communism. The system that china claims to use.
@sprainposting
@sprainposting Жыл бұрын
please do the Cultural Revolution i've never found a good video on it
@rtz549
@rtz549 Жыл бұрын
If the tank driver would have smeared the guy standing in the way; would he have got in trouble?
@mrcactuar8515
@mrcactuar8515 Жыл бұрын
Massacre is when a whole battalion of tanks stops for a single person with shopping bags during a state of national emergency.
@LoganLS0
@LoganLS0 Жыл бұрын
Short answer: Commies gonna Commie.
@woodduck
@woodduck Жыл бұрын
This is a good video of what would happen if a massacre happened in Tiananmen Square on the dates of April 15th to June 4th 1989.
@user-kp9ox7ey2o
@user-kp9ox7ey2o Жыл бұрын
Can you make video on 6 day war
@michaellynes3540
@michaellynes3540 Жыл бұрын
0:46 “Aw, screw this! I just came over to buy some fireworks!”
@Darkest_matter
@Darkest_matter Жыл бұрын
I just seen that family guy thing on tiktok.
@michaelgothenburg364
@michaelgothenburg364 3 ай бұрын
I find it more interesting WHEN it's going to happen again. The country of this topic has developed very well after it opened up but we must remember that it is impossible to not grow well when you're so far behind. Many economic decisions have been less than good to put it mildly and there are many underlying economic problems. Continued low growth for the next decadeS is inevitable. Their government will surely not be able to pay pensions that people can life and pay medical care on as the effects of the one-child policy continue to worsen. There is going to be problems again one day and they will be "managed" the same way.
@chimchim2_
@chimchim2_ Жыл бұрын
I found your channel maybe a week ago. Stumbled upon some semi afro-history, fell Into a Jewish history rabbit hole, and stayed for everything else. Happy
@GR3YS0RG4N1CS
@GR3YS0RG4N1CS Жыл бұрын
I'm sorry you like being lied to to make yourself feel morally superior...
@chimchim2_
@chimchim2_ Жыл бұрын
@@GR3YS0RG4N1CS wha 🤔
@GarfieldEnjoyer1878
@GarfieldEnjoyer1878 Жыл бұрын
@@GR3YS0RG4N1CSWow a real life tankie!
@seekingabsolution1907
@seekingabsolution1907 Жыл бұрын
2:41 well if Xi was denounced in that time period maybe Mao had a point. Xi Xinping definitely doesnt strike me as being as revolutionary as his predecessors. Also I didn't know Mao voluntarily left power, respectable if true I appreciate politicians willing to step down.
@Julian-4
@Julian-4 Жыл бұрын
He NEVER voluntarily left. He held on to power until his last breath. He should’ve been exterminated and his corpse turned into ashes for all he did to terrify China
@nikkimiller8733
@nikkimiller8733 Жыл бұрын
I love the idea & would be sooo interested in a vaca with a cool KZfaqr such as urself!
@jaymes4750
@jaymes4750 Жыл бұрын
You are using hong kong establishing shots, not Chinese
@Ass_of_Amalek
@Ass_of_Amalek Жыл бұрын
23:23 "expanding bullets, which were prohibited by international law for use in warfare" - odd thing to point out, given that this was not warfare, and many police forces, including all US police, use expanding bullets as their standard ammunition (the official rationale being that the prevention of overpenetration through the targeted person or physical structures reduces risk to bystanders). you also kinda failed at explaining that the withdrawal of PLA troops from beijing had very little to do with the protesters gaining an upper hand - it was actually because the troops that had been deployed in bejing had been compromised in their command loyalty through their contact with the protesters, and the military and party leadership feared non-compliance and mutinies if they ordered those troops to massacre the protesters. they were withdrawn from beijing to prevent them from protecting the protesters, and new troops from elsewhere who had no prior contact with the protesters were transported to beijing and kept away from the protesters until they were ready to attack in order to ensure their compliance.
@user-fd1ne3jj3r
@user-fd1ne3jj3r Жыл бұрын
At that time, there was no difference in the use of firearms for military and police purposes in China,It's not as high as it was made。The competition between the Left-right political spectrum in the Communist Party has spread to the private sector, and it is just the high-level command
@billberg2002
@billberg2002 Жыл бұрын
It's flipping hilarious that TEMU advertises during this video
@rapeanumadalin2314
@rapeanumadalin2314 9 ай бұрын
that sort of underline that there is always a bitter story behind a cheap product from China...citizen and environment side...😢
@jackwraith3504
@jackwraith3504 Жыл бұрын
There are rioters in every country.
@Darkest_matter
@Darkest_matter Жыл бұрын
Not in North Korea. The country that actually has a very bad government that needs to change in some way.
@jackwraith3504
@jackwraith3504 Жыл бұрын
@@Darkest_matter They need a bloody revolution!
@Darkest_matter
@Darkest_matter Жыл бұрын
@@jackwraith3504 I've said this before... No outsiders intervene and let south Korea absorb the north into their country, or just turn it into a part of china. Either option would MASSIVELY improve the quality of life for the people living there.
@jackwraith3504
@jackwraith3504 Жыл бұрын
@IbraheemProductionsgaming You are not considering about political gains but purely the well-being of their people. You are a very good person.
@Darkest_matter
@Darkest_matter Жыл бұрын
@@jackwraith3504 thanks brother.
@youreawesome718
@youreawesome718 Жыл бұрын
dude please put a slight noise gate on your mic, it’ll reduce if not eliminate the electrical noise your mic has
@truvakaplan2376
@truvakaplan2376 2 ай бұрын
Casual Historian:. Did you read all the books in that office? If you did you are a true expert!!
@user-cd4bx6uq1y
@user-cd4bx6uq1y Жыл бұрын
Great video
@iacorianus
@iacorianus Жыл бұрын
Demonetised
@saltshaker1118
@saltshaker1118 Жыл бұрын
What's this, the video is just blank, there's nothing here
@C.A.A93
@C.A.A93 Жыл бұрын
And you friend, have a new Subscriber, cheers to 100k 🥂
@AngrySeal8232
@AngrySeal8232 2 ай бұрын
😢😢😢😢 There goes all my social credits...
@EvilSmonker
@EvilSmonker 2 ай бұрын
I hope you can do a video on Xi Jinping, he is a fascinating figure with a very interesting story.
@chesthoIe
@chesthoIe Жыл бұрын
What are some examples of authoritarian systems that reform or are overthrown once they fall under the sway of democratic economic interests? Hawaii?
@Darkest_matter
@Darkest_matter Жыл бұрын
South Korea... When I hear about the 80s.. south Korea was a dictatorship and north Korea was the modern one.. how times have changed.
@pokyme
@pokyme Жыл бұрын
You mean why didn't it happen?
@wrestlingpurist9784
@wrestlingpurist9784 Жыл бұрын
Could the next one be about the violent Genoa G8 of 2001?
@babyblue_22
@babyblue_22 Жыл бұрын
Is it just me, or does the audio when he's talking keep decreasing and increasing? Like over and over, it just gets quieter and louder and quieter again constantly, or is that just me?
@rapeanumadalin2314
@rapeanumadalin2314 9 ай бұрын
I think that's automatic gain..wich I would set it to manual and be careful with the mic...
@jinshiksung
@jinshiksung 5 ай бұрын
They mourn the wrong person Now they don't get confused
@cristospo
@cristospo Жыл бұрын
The hidden hands are suppressing this video
@drkgld
@drkgld Жыл бұрын
Why don't you show the unedited, uncropped tankman video?
@stevenbaksh5545
@stevenbaksh5545 Жыл бұрын
I know right plus why not show the interview clip of the former Chinese president Jiang Zemin when he was asked about tankman
@Darkest_matter
@Darkest_matter Жыл бұрын
There's no full video of that Clip.
@josh656
@josh656 Жыл бұрын
It’s a lot nastier than most people realize.
@behrensf84
@behrensf84 Жыл бұрын
well, definitely no vacationing at the place that's the topic of this video. I once did a test with my Chinese college mates in my masters program by showing them the picture of the tank man and asking if they knew what it was. they did not...
@aufumy
@aufumy Жыл бұрын
Show US college students a picture of Rodney King, do you think they would know what it is? All countries censor
@bobojenkins5805
@bobojenkins5805 Жыл бұрын
Wouldn't have happened if the people were all armed
@user-fd1ne3jj3r
@user-fd1ne3jj3r Жыл бұрын
Are you joking? At that time, China was a country where the whole people became militia, and most of them had guns and received training
@TheL0wner
@TheL0wner Жыл бұрын
does it really take 27 minutes to say communism?
@Adam-qp1jn
@Adam-qp1jn 3 ай бұрын
That book placement is a 100% intentionally
@FEDEXLuchs
@FEDEXLuchs Жыл бұрын
Weird how you uploaded a video with nothing on it
@Mrgunsngear
@Mrgunsngear Жыл бұрын
Thanks
@ZachRULES96
@ZachRULES96 2 ай бұрын
This video is banned in China
@PlumSack79
@PlumSack79 Жыл бұрын
😡 COMPRETERY RIDICUROUS ARREGATIONS
@jirimakovsky6619
@jirimakovsky6619 8 ай бұрын
Cool video but I find it for some reason extremely hard to follow. The script seems to be so full of information that I have to rewind every 30 seconds. Just a personal note.
@TNLable
@TNLable Жыл бұрын
4:08 that was Hua Guofeng, not Hu Yaobang
@mahmudulislam9535
@mahmudulislam9535 Жыл бұрын
Im actually happy to see youve lost weight.....looking good man,hope youll make a video on pakistan Bangladesh history
@binguspingus2461
@binguspingus2461 Жыл бұрын
Bing Chilling!!!!!
@rapeanumadalin2314
@rapeanumadalin2314 9 ай бұрын
no time for ice cream Sir...
@harlowng2592
@harlowng2592 Жыл бұрын
make it easier to skip ads like that in your videos
@refundreplay
@refundreplay Жыл бұрын
Unexpected heart attacks are the worst. I like to plan mine at least 3 months in advance.
@DenyseLRoss
@DenyseLRoss 3 ай бұрын
Every country that has an airline had to say TIAWAN belongs to China to still operate in China
@Supersurfer12
@Supersurfer12 2 ай бұрын
That is crazy!
@VincentIrkallaOfficial
@VincentIrkallaOfficial Жыл бұрын
Insightful view into Western historical revisionism and color revolutions. Very informative!
@Vicepresidentsaturday
@Vicepresidentsaturday Жыл бұрын
Tankie detected
@xanmontes8715
@xanmontes8715 11 ай бұрын
​@@Vicepresidentsaturdayhe's a sad little creature, don't judge too harshly.
@Supersurfer12
@Supersurfer12 2 ай бұрын
It would be interesting if you could define "color revolution"
@ItsCrouton
@ItsCrouton Жыл бұрын
“Why did the tianamen square massacre happen?” It didnt! (I live in china)
@Darkest_matter
@Darkest_matter Жыл бұрын
As we have seen in this video, it was a crackdown, and not a massacre and it occured all over Beijing.
@matgeezer2094
@matgeezer2094 Жыл бұрын
Fed up with the adverts
@user-tb5uq7wc3f
@user-tb5uq7wc3f 2 ай бұрын
I think every country have similar events confusion between the police and governments glad thy have move past this the country is growing today❤
@Supersurfer12
@Supersurfer12 2 ай бұрын
China is constantly using bots to try to cover up this event
@annahaaijman6391
@annahaaijman6391 8 ай бұрын
can you send me the subtitles of this video? this function this not work for me. Thanks!
@spidermanofnewjersey58
@spidermanofnewjersey58 Жыл бұрын
-100,000,000,000,000,000 SOCIAL CREDIT
@FarberBob678
@FarberBob678 Жыл бұрын
Happy internet maintenance day
@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752
@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752 Жыл бұрын
25:51 =Yeah... The whole student Revolution thing felt counterproductive to me... Before that the government was wholly easing up, slowly moving to the right direction... Kinda like how Catherine the Great is doing in her time, then some intellectuals can't wait and want the damn to break immideately... Ending: Those in power who thought it was a good idea backtracked... At least that's how I understood it...
@kaydenjones3183
@kaydenjones3183 Жыл бұрын
So its THE PROTESTERS fault
@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752
@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752 Жыл бұрын
@@kaydenjones3183 Not really... I think it's something deeper than that... They started due to the belief that the professor's heart attack is not heart attack at all and that they believed it's an assassination... Who thought of that? Who disseminated that theory when there is no proof that it was indeed an assassination? If the government is easing up into the notion of slowly switching into a republic through this experiment, it would be counterproductive to do so right? It's honestly a curious case...
@Darkest_matter
@Darkest_matter Жыл бұрын
​@@kaydenjones3183yeah. They didn't have any patience... So they recieved no virtue.
@RobertReg1
@RobertReg1 Жыл бұрын
Good vid
@Sonic-gy7kq
@Sonic-gy7kq Жыл бұрын
You look like bubbles from trailer park boys
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