[axiolite]

> Bro who help up the tanks, for example, was trying to convince them to stay and oppress the student movement.

Source?

Wikipedia article says nobody has a clue who he is/was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

Chinese state TV treated him like a protester, and spun it as an example of what nice guys the Chinese Army is:

  CHINA TELEVISION ANNOUNCER: [subtitles] Anyone with common sense can see that if our tanks were determined to move on, this lone scoundrel could never have stopped them. This scene flies in the face of Western propaganda. It proves that our soldiers exercised the highest degree of restraint.  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/etc/transcript.html