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Tankie goes to Ukraine to fight for Russia, gets tortured and executed by Russian tank crew (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bentley, a 64-year-old self-identified communist from Dallas, Texas, joined pro-Russian separatists in 2014 to combat Ukrainian forces. He went missing in the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in April and was subsequently discovered dead.

https://united24media.com/latest-news/american-pro-kremlin-fighter-russell-bentley-tortured-to-death-by-russian-soldiers-2477

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Did he not know that Russia isn't communist?!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

I don't think a tankie from Texas can be assumed to know anything

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tankies aren't communist. Neither are leninists. Their only ideological stance is to be anti west/America. Even if that means aiding fascists whom they have more in common with anyhow. Of which there's historical precedence.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They do pretend to be communist though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Absolutely. Like the economic liberals that larp as libertarians. What they call themselves and what they do are completely opposed.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Must be like the .ml "communist"s who love authoritarianism so much they'll pretend state capitalism is leftist.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why is a 64 year old going to war?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t think he fought. He was a propaganda mascot. He was in a lot of early videos when Russia was invading. Surprised he wasn’t killed earlier when Ukraine was opening the whoop ass on the invading force s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I remember seeing him in a couple videos. The article says 2014 though.