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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Calling an insurgency a peaceful protest is indeed revisionist if one were to do so.

And calling a revolt an insurgency and calling insurgency where rioters kill over 100 soldiers a peaceful protest with counteraction against such insurgency a massacre is also quite the revisionism.

The timeline of Tianenmen 1989 is

  • large continuing peaceful protests for US-controlled school education
  • groups of students or "students" killing soldiers on the street
  • evacuating peaceful protesters from the square + soldiers killing insurgents still active on the street
  • train station incident, unrelated protesters block soldiers with strict orders from entering train
  • tanks arrive on square and start patrolling the streets
  • Man with shopping bags stops tank on the same street the soldiers and insurgents were killed, then jumps on it, other students drag him off the tank and away.