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I've never seen this angle of Tiananmen Square's tankman before. Figured I would share. (lemmy.world)
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[–] cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee 25 points 5 months ago (4 children)

You never visited the Wikipedia page before?

[–] Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The wikipedia page doesn't have any version of this image. Regardless, the most shared images are closer up and from the ground, showing about 5 tanks, not this version with 50 tanks. The image of him sitting in front of a few tanks was the most widely used I believe.

This is common

So is this

If I remember correctly, the version OP posted was newly found/released only a few years ago. E: this is what I was thinking of.

[–] cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the link, but it still doesn't have this picture.

[–] cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You just have missed the section where it showed that photo.

[–] PetteriSkaffari@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nope, OP's picture is not shown there. Only a picture that was taken earlier.

[–] cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's quite obvious now that you didn't even view the Wikipedia page of tank man and look at the other photos

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 5 months ago

Only a picture that was taken earlier.

Note the distance

[–] summerof69@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

I imagine most people don't visit that page. It's totally normal.

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

What is Wikipedia?

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

i assumed it was a meme post until i looked at the community name