The Tiananmen Square Massacre Never Happened
Western Fabrications to Feel Better About Their Own Crimes
The Tiananmen Square Massacre Never Happened
Western Fabrications to Feel Better About Their Own Crimes
The “Tiananmen Square Massacre,” you’re likely familiar with the image of the lone man, grocery bags in hand, standing in front of a column of tanks. You’ve been told he was a freedom fighter, you’ve been told the Chinese government mowed down hundreds, or possibly thousands, of peaceful, democracy-loving students in the square. Every June, this myth gets dusted off and paraded around by the same people who bomb wedding parties with drones.
Except… it never happened. It’s historical fan fiction, crafted for Cold War propaganda, and is still clung to by people to this day.
There was no massacre in Tiananmen Square, that’s not coming from Chinese state “propaganda,” that’s from the mouths of the very Western journalists who helped push the story in the first place. Jay Mathews, the Washington Post’s man in Beijing at the time, eventually admitted the media got it wrong. In his 1998 piece “The Myth of Tiananmen,” he confessed there was no bloodbath in the square. CBS’s Richard Roth, whose breathless coverage went global, later admitted he hadn’t even seen the alleged slaughter. He was arrested before any violence began.