• Ski@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    A tankie is someone who supports the CCP or unironically supports the USSR/Russia. They’re generally authoritarian leftists. The term tankie comes from the tanks used to crush people at Tianamen Square

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      1 year ago

      actually it came from when the USSR sent tanks to Hungary to keep down a workets revolution against the Soviet backed regime in the mid-twentieth century. Origanally it was used as a description for divisions in the British communist party between those who felt a global [Soviet backed] communist plan, versus those who supported independent worker collectives democratically deciding their own direction.