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Remember kids, Tankies wants to undermine democracy - same as facists.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@LtLiana No I think it was coined to describe communists in the west who were down with the ~~Stalinist government led by Rákosi~~ [edit, whoever the old hardliners were in Hungary and whoever it was in the USSR under Kruschev] sending tanks to subdue Hungary. Wikipedia on Hungarian uprising for those who want to know more.

Tankies generally are still Stalinism apologists, among other things. I don't think it has changed that much.

These days they just have a whole lot more egregious totalitarianism to be apologists for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When did stalin die and when did the hungarian revolt happen?