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What was your First encounter with a tankie? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Zstom6IP@lemmy.world to c/tankiejerk@lemmy.world

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Mine happened when i first made a reddit account, i got banned from a subreddit with a tankie moderator because i questioned the logic of having lenin as the subreddits profile, for a subreddit devoted to anti conservative memes.

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[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

So you're a full tankie.

The term was coined when the soviets put down the Hungarian revolution of 1956 with tanks. Other communists critical of the brutal suppression of a popular revolution coined the term to describe the authoritarianism of the people who thought it was fine and dandy.

Modern tankies deny that Tiananman Square never happened. They deny that the CCP is committing genocide. They claim that Russia is justified in invading Ukraine.

They tend to think that China or Russia are somehow good since the US is so obviously evil.

Some people can't accept that most countries are run by evil people.