Yeah, its always a fair fight when you take on tanks with three ring binders and bicycles. Tough, idealistic kids up against utterly remorseless tyrants. The end result was a foregone conclusion. The video image of the anonymous man with shopping bags stopping an armoured brigade will live in history.

So brave and so utterly doomed... though at the time I remember wondering if they would actually win? And yes, who can forget that image of the lone man standing defiantly in front of the line of tanks. This may be the finest photographic image of the Individual against the State ever taken.

Hopeless but they had the right idea.

I agree with irishgit and Enkidu. The cause was just about hopeless.. but that single image in burned into my brain.