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Perception is more powerful than reality. You think the tankman from china actually accomplished much. But he is still a symbol today.
But do they have the same optics. Will they be perceived like this one? Probably not.
Okay post a really good picture right here in the thread.
I still find it so odd the tank didn't want to run him over, when just the day before they had tanks running over hundreds of bodies over and over to the point where they could just spray the remains with a fire hose into the sewer.
When there are many people, you don't have to look at individual faces. When it is one calm and harmless man, you can find the tank driver is human too. The driver was probably execured or something for not running the guy over.