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arrow-up19arrow-down1imageTankies D(rule)llemmy.blahaj.zoneSilverstrings@lemmy.blahaj.zone to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · edit-23 years agomessage-square15linkfedilink
minus-squareRustledTeapot@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 years agoGenerally someone who makes justifications and/or excuses for totalitarian communist regimes and their atrocities. It came from still supporting Stalin after he sent tanks into a rebelling territory.
minus-squareOmega@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 years agoStalin didn’t send the tanks, he died in 1953, while the hungarian revolution happened in 1956, the prague spring uprising even later in 1968, and as far as I know the term was created in connection with these events.
Generally someone who makes justifications and/or excuses for totalitarian communist regimes and their atrocities.
It came from still supporting Stalin after he sent tanks into a rebelling territory.
Stalin didn’t send the tanks, he died in 1953, while the hungarian revolution happened in 1956, the prague spring uprising even later in 1968, and as far as I know the term was created in connection with these events.