By John Preston PUBLISHED: 16:43 EST, 5 June 2014 | UPDATED: 13:04 EST, 7 June 2014 Defying the tanks: A Beijing citizen stand sin front of tanks in Tiananmen Square in 1989 There is one photograph that encapsulates the stand-off between the Chinese army and democracy campaigners in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. It shows a man standing in front of three tanks. In his hand he is holding a carrier bag, rather as if he’s been rudely interrupted while out shopping. No one has ever identified the man, but that’s not the strangest thing about the photo — it’s the fact that in China today scarcely anyone has seen it.
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25 years ago the Tiananmen Square massacre shocked the world
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The events of June 4, 1989 have disappeared from Chinese history books
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Dissidents and soldiers are still haunted by the events
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