Friday, August 27, 2010

REVOLUTIONARY SYMBOLS THAT HAVE CHANGED




The Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel, is the nickname of an anonymous man who stood in front of a column of Chinese type 59 tanks the morning after the Chinese military forcibly removed protesters from in and around Beijing's Tianaman Square on June 4, 1989.
The revolutionary Symbol of Standing up to the tank has since been replicated throughout Television, Film and the Internet making a mockery of the once courageous unknown rebel.

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