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.
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