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[Serious] Can someone explain what a "tankie" is? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm very OOTL when it comes to a lot of the major divides in online communities because thankfully I've managed to avoid most of the arguing. I've noticed a lot of instances say "no tankies" as one of their first rules and figured this might be the only place I could get a real answer.

Was there something specific they did to piss off everyone? If I had to take a shot in the dark, are they just people who are really pro-military?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The TL;DR is someone who supports authoritarian regimes that 'are trying to achieve communism' to the degree that they support, often uncritically, the oppression caused by (self-claimed) communist regimes. Some examples of such regimes would be : the USSR, the Chinese Communist Party, North Korea and Russia.

They will often deny or severely undermine events such as the Holodomor, Uyghur genocide or the Tiananmen Square massacre.

The term comes from the usage of tanks by the USSR "to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising".