This is what happens when you ask regular people in China about Tiananmen

However famous the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen massacre may be outside of China, it is barely known in the country where it occurred. This can be baffling for outsiders: how could the Chinese government enforce this vast national amnesia of a major, recent event in their country's history, one in which the government sent troops to slaughter perhaps 2,600 peaceful protesters? How, in a country as well-educated and cosmopolitan as China, could this even be possible? This 2005 short documentary "A Day Forgotten," made by Chinese filmmaker Liu Wei and flagged by China File's Susie Jakes, may be one of the most powerful and affecting attempts at an answer.