Beautiful post @adamkokesh and @marcus.pilus!
I remember walking alongside that street last year in Beijing. I'd like to share a few more thoughts about this, having lived in China for nearly 4 years now:
My girlfriend, who is the most open and well-read person I've met here (she came to Anarchapulco!) said that she hadn't heard about the incident until after she left school and university. She estimates that less than 10% of Chinese have any idea about what happened then. And it's DEFINITELY not discussed in school.
She had never seen the picture of Tank Man until I showed it to her this morning.
The Chinese mafia rotated out the normal Beijing troops and brought in troops from the countryside. Though untrue, the countryside troops saw the Beijing people as "separate" or "other" than them. Once we realize we're all brothers and sisters and that the controlling class enjoys putting in artificial divisions, we'll have a better chance of truly being free.
Before the troops cleared the square (many were still divided about the orders, not wanting to plow over their brothers and sisters), 100 soldiers "went missing." Officers told the soldiers that they had been captured by the protestors and brutally murdered. As the rumor spread through the troops, fiery anger at the protestors emerged. After they murdered and cleared their way through the square, the 100 soldiers emerged unharmed and had no idea about the rumors. They were posted to guard another area. Oops. A clever and deceitful way for the military officers to urge on their dogs to kill.
I completely 100% agree with you that the soldiers will need to DISOBEY immoral orders in order for us to be free. We need to reach out to them with love and care, and explain that their actions are 100% immoral, but the ultimate act of courage is DISOBEYING their orders and exercising TRUE CONSCIENCE.
I again recommend Mark Passio's presentation, "The Cult of Ultimate Evil: Order Followers and the Destruction of the Sacred Feminine" for more on this.