You very conveniently picked the single source that is the most dubious of them all out of an entire wikipedia article that I will gladly link here for other people to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre#Other_estimates

Every other witness account talks about hundreds to maybe a few thousands, with most sticking to the one thousand mark.

It's called a government/state not a """regime""". Chill with the doublespeak. With that being said, I repeatedly said that I find the events to be regrettable and the violence condemnable. I did not cherry pick anything. Hell, I dropped the western media source here myself. Any other way, I don't personally believe that it was a state planned massacre on civilians, but rather an overall "massacre" on all sides given the split in casualties and the spontaneous nature of the event. It should've been handled better. On another note, I do admire what China has achieved, and the overwhelming majority of its citizens seem to be content with the """regime""".

I took that straight out of the DW article. Go beef with DW. The protests were indeed violent, but the fairly split casualties cast doubt on it being a "massacre". No one was being rounded up and straight up slaughtered in a circle of soldiers, bullets flying. It's still a tragic event, and I personally wish it wouldn't have happened the way it did.

On another note, I don't mind China or the CCP at all. I actually quite admire the things they've achieved in half a century, and the amount of people they helped rise out of poverty. "Authoritarian" or not, I don't mind them.

So where are said videos of the massacre happening

The protesters were comprised of many groups. Some of them were indeed staunch maoists criticizing Deng, others (which I believe was the majority) were protesting for some form of liberal reforms (keep in mind that this is China and people didn't fully know the concept of a western style liberal democracy back then), and everything in between. In terms of the casualties, this is where it gets muddy. But most historians (including western, anticommunist historians) agree that there were at most 1000 casualties, with a pretty fair split between civilian casualties and military casualties. Almost all diplomatic cables at the time seem to confirm this, including those from foreign diplomatic staff present in Tiananmen Square and around at the time of the protests. If you want to have a deeper look at the diplomatic cables, just google them. They're on Wikileaks. Search for "Wikileaks Tiananmen". The consensus is also that there was no actual "massacre" in the square. If you want a western source looking into these claims, check this out: https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-was-chinas-tiananmen-massacre-a-western-fabrication/a-69302040

I personally don't completely agree with DW, but I am also biased. With that being said, I think this entire debacle is completely blown out of proportion. We've seen less outrage from western nations when actual genocides and massacres were (and are) happening. Could the Chinese government have handled these protests better? Sure.

You could pick so many more things to criticize China for especially from its past, verifiable events, yet the west always picks Tiananmen Square, making sure to pick the image of the guy standing in front of the tank, but somehow always forgets to show the video of the guy climbing on top of the tank, asking soldiers to turn around to where the protesters are, and somehow forget mentioning that literally half the casualties were soldiers that were set ablaze. Even diplomatic cables at the time either leaked or declassified prove that.

Much of the mentality that enabled nazi Germany stayed. I'm half romanian, half german. I'm also part jewish. My ancestors died in the Holocaust. The German love for law and order scares me. They're overly obedient. Rarely walk out of line on serious matters. Mark my words, but someday the AfD will come to power, and they'll make use of all the tools the liberals implemented for them (suppressing protests, deporting people, cutting funding, and so on) and no one will bat an eye. Because a law is a law and therefore it is to be followed. Hopefully I'll manage to be far away by that time.

Right wing twats trying their best to destroy as many children as they can

Remember when they shot a journalist in the head and provided a fake investigation into it that they then took back but still concluded in the end that the journalist was at fault for getting shot?

Remember when they crushed a 23 years old woman from the US to death with a bulldozer because she was protesting the demolition of palestinian homes, then they started an "investigation" where they found out they hadn't done anything wrong because they didn't see her even though the woman has been protesting there for hours and the soldiers that were there testified that she was being a nuisance for hours?

Remember the laws they passed that let the IDF destroy palestinian homes if they deem by internal investigation that they're somehow connected to "terrorism"?

Remember the laws that let IDF soldiers shoot kids if they throw rocks at soldiers in occupied territories?

Yeah... just a few bad apples.