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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.

A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.

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Seeing much more tankie from ml lately (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Noo you don't ._. Their train of thought is more often than not "USSR=Good. USSR hates USA. USA=Bad. Modern Russia hates USA. So Russia = Good."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I bet they have never been to Russia

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Its not even that, its more the USSR apologism that is horrifying to me, it is clear they have never interacted with someone who has lived through the USSR, especially non-russians. They keep parroting how bad most post-soviet economies are, conveniently leaving out what the USSR did to those same economies on its way out.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

what the USSR did to those same economies on its way out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

you havent been listening. thats not our opinion about it at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Care to elaborate?