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Old 05-01-2021, 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Tegyrius View Post
With wartime censorship, there's a real chance that footage never got out to have an impact on American public support.
I may have missed your point, but the TMSM occurred in mid-'89, and the Sino-Soviet War (v1) started in '95 or so, so the cat would have already been out of the bag as far as censorship would have gone. IRL, the US wasn't censoring images of the massacre in '89.

That said, I agree that realpolitik would have most Americans conveniently forgetting about that unpleasant incident when the opportunity to stick it to the Soviets with a proxy war in East Asia arises.

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