Rolling over demonstrators with tanks works, for a little while. But not forever.
Some day — maybe within the next 20 years, maybe longer, but some day for sure — this picture will hang where pictures of Chairman Mao hang today.
And some day, there will be a statue, life-size and bronze, on or near that very spot, and schoolchildren will line up to marvel at it and to hear again the story that they all already know by heart because the tanks didn't crush the story but rather, unwittingly as always, helped to write it.
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