It originally referred to modern day communists who believed Stalin was right to send troops and tanks into Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crush the liberal government there that had recently arisen there. Hence the word “tankie” for someone who believes that it’s right to use tanks to destroy peaceful democratic governments in order to (re)install communism.
I think he may be getting a couple things mixed up, namely that the term tankie was borne due to multiple uprisings one of which was the 1956 Hungarian Revolution which was in many ways caused by the death of Stalin.
It also wasn’t a peaceful democratic movement. My point is merely that a lot of people who don’t know anything write extremely confidently on this and every other topic related to communist history.
I’m still trying to understand what tankies are. Are they simply people pretending to be communists?
It originally referred to modern day communists who believed Stalin was right to send troops and tanks into Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crush the liberal government there that had recently arisen there. Hence the word “tankie” for someone who believes that it’s right to use tanks to destroy peaceful democratic governments in order to (re)install communism.
lmao you don’t know anything, do you?
I think he may be getting a couple things mixed up, namely that the term tankie was borne due to multiple uprisings one of which was the 1956 Hungarian Revolution which was in many ways caused by the death of Stalin.
It also wasn’t a peaceful democratic movement. My point is merely that a lot of people who don’t know anything write extremely confidently on this and every other topic related to communist history.
Fun fact: China opposed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
Tankies is a pejorative for authoritarian communists. As to the sincerity and actual involvement in any actual activity, that is highly individual.
If anyone tries to tell you Tianemen Square Massacre didn’t happen… They’re a Tankie.
If anyone tries to tell you that “The LGBT Agenda is a Western Attack on Third World Nations”… They’re a Tankie.
If they voted for Trump because “But Kamala’s bad for Palestine.”… Tankie
And if they voted for Trump because he’s a terrible person who will destroy everything, they’re not just a tankie, they’re an Accelerationist.