They know of Tiamen square. I wouldn’t say they know about it. They just see a guy in front of a tank and then go “oooo, brave, standing up to the CeceePee.”
Sadly, I am also trapped in this pisspot with ya, I just also happen to have learned a bit of Chinese over the last year, and proposed in front of Chairman Mao in tiananmen when I was there, so I am pretty intimately aware of how to spell it lol
Yeah, the entirety of the US war on Vietnam has gotten memory holed into being this big, unpopular mistake when the truth was that it was fairly popular at first
Lots of volunteers, lots of pro-war sentiment
Took the war dragging on for several years for opinion to start changing, but the two big nails in the coffin were the Tet Offensive and the release of the Pentagon Papers
The combination of the supposedly defeated North Vietnamese striking back with a vengeance and the public finding out that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a farce was what finally broke the majority of public support
Atrocities like the My Lai Massacre and Tiger Force didn’t do much to get people turned off, and neither did the Kent State shooting
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