Definitely. It was still an atrocity. No two ways about it. It's just also an atrocity that the West has grabbed onto to push a broader propagandized anti-communist narrative.

Both of those things are true. I am a socialist and I have zero problem saying that Tiananmen, based on my understanding of the historical accounts I've read, was an atrocity and a very bad mishandling of events by the army/government.