• Dee@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Loving the anti-tankie memes, establishing this community to be based af

    • Silverstrings@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      1 year ago

      Happy to be of service. Hopefully once we’ve posted enough of these tankies will stop going into the comments to spread genocide denial and authoritarian apologia.

      • SeatBeeSate@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Auth left fascists. Stalin/mauist sympathizers. Think of the polar extreme opposite of authoritarian right.

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        1 year ago

        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.

        • Omega@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          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.

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    1 year ago

    I installed birdsite recently and actually saw tankies for the first time in my life.

    Sweet Krolm, the Rat God, what bullshit do they post.

    Shit like “If it was a soviet ‘crime’ that means it wasn’t a crime at all”