12-20-2005, 03:21 PM
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Join Date: June 27, 2001
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Quote:
Originally posted by wellard:
from 'TIME'
A small, unexceptional figure in slacks and white shirt, carrying what looks to be his shopping, posts himself before an approaching tank, with a line of 17 more tanks behind it. The tank swerves right; he, to block it, moves left. The tank swerves left; he moves right. Then this anonymous bystander clambers up onto the vehicle of war and says something to its driver, which comes down to us as: "Why are you here? My city is in chaos because of you." One lone Everyman standing up to machinery, to force, to all the massed weight of the People's Republic — the largest nation in the world, comprising more than 1 billion people
A great moment in history, very moving and to me THE symbol of the last century's greatist year (1989) but as a stand alone picture? it is after all a frame from a video (I think) many others beat it IMO Davros [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Really? I thought he got run over... Oh well, we learn something new every day.
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