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Do you have any source for this? Google shows nothing and Duck Duck Go only points me to a reddit thread with that exact same comment and no source.

I mean just about the specific case, I know that the Tiananmen square incident is unknown to almost all Chinese.

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The source is the reddit comment. It was a reply to an askreddit thread.

Indeed. It's anecdotal, but given the 1.3 billion people in China, I'm inclined to believe that this isn't a one-time case.

I can also confirm from personal experience that many, many educated Chinese locals are not aware of this portion of their history.

Even those whom I suspect may be aware of it seem to confine it to a cultural blindspot approaching wilful ignorance. It is something you simply _do not talk about_ in China.

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