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Uploaded by on Oct 31, 2006

The famous scene following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. The little man, known as the "Tankman" displays the ultimate in civil disobedience. Accompanied by Mario Savio's famous "Machine" speech.

The tune is Boards of Canada's "Music is math".

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  • Has anyone ever thought about the driving having the courage not to obey orders?

  • @1pL4yDRuMz98 Half the comments have been about that, and that kinda pisses me off. Not obeying orders (to kill civilians) is really not comparable to standing in front of tanks, from an army who just killed thousands. Not comparable.

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  • I would of just ran the motherf**ker over.

  • If u can make a beat where that guy is giving a speech is talking at first, n then add some bass 2 tha background music. That would be tight!!

  • He was then exicuted along side his family in a labor camp. The End.

  • 0:35 RWJ?!

  • "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country

    against his government."

    Edward Abbey

  • Respect

  • What a brave little guy

  • this man always displays a touching story, and also th driver of the tank..no matter how you see him/them he was also a hero for not running over this poor guy

  • wow, i remember that situation A LOT different! i remembered he was crossing the street, stopped in front of them, they stopped, then he left....

    this was a lot better than my stupid memory.

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