After all, the original tankies cheered on the Soviet crushing of the Hungarian revolution, a revolution led by the local communists who wanted to remain a communist country, just not a soviet country.

Hungarians: "Actually, our interim government consists of a supermajority of socialist parties and we intend to-"

Tankies today: "F A S C I S T S"

I can honestly afford tankies back then a little more leeway - at least some of them were simply ignorant and giving the Sovs the benefit of the doubt given the limited ability to filter through information across the Iron Curtain reliably - but now we have so much information at our fingertips that it's hard to believe people still repeat long-discredited propaganda.

Ignore the Sea Lion below me. He's just JAQing off, as tankies love to do. I have him blocked, but I still get notifications lmao.