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"Anti-imperialism? Are you some kind of tankie?" (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The word has lost all meaning

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (23 children)

Tankies are people who support the Soviet intervention in Hungary in 1956

I have no opinion at all on that coz I know nothing about it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (16 children)

crazy how Khrushchev is technically a tankie

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

For all the revisionism of de-stalinization, most of that was propaganda. The economic and international policy of the USSR barely changed as a result of Khruschchyov. Cool analysis of this in "Is the red flag flying", by Albert Szymanski, looking at several economic and social indicators and arguing this as a conclusion.