• chaogomu@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The term tankie dates back to 1956, when the soviets sent in tanks to crush a communist movement in Hungary. They wanted self-governance (while still being a communist nation) the soviets wanted a soviet puppet state to protect Moscow from the west.

    Tankies were the subset of western communists who supported the soviets, named such by the western communists who were not authoritarian worshiping fucks.

    • Ludwig van Beethoven@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      As a Hungarian, I felt obliged to do some reading. Lo and behold, you are correct. And so, I would like to take this opportunity and say

      Fuck '56 tankies, and fuck modern tankies. The paradox of tolerance holds true: if you tolerate these people’s deluded takes as ‘alernative viewpoints’, you move towards intolerance, whether you like it or not.

      Listening to the Overture to Egmont as I write this.