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  • Saapas@piefed.ziptoComic Strips@lemmy.worldEmpathy
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    13 hours ago

    I don’t think it’s fair to give all the credit to the US on that one. The communists who took over were really a small urban elite of sorts and were pushing for highly unpopular changes really fast. Especilaly the rural more conservative population was against them even without any US involved, US just helped that effort.









  • Saapas@piefed.ziptoMemes@lemmy.mlEvergreen meme
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    4 days ago

    I’m happy they didn’t kill that one man but…

    The troops advanced into central parts of Beijing on the city’s major thoroughfares in the early morning hours of 4 June and engaged in bloody clashes with demonstrators attempting to block them, in which many people – demonstrators, bystanders, and soldiers – were killed. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more wounded