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What the fuck are you talking about? (rule) (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does the word Tankie comes from the tanks in tinnamen square?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

The term "tankie" was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.[5][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Tankie refers to the when Russia sent tanks in Hungary to stop them from setting up a communist government that didn't follow their particular communist ideology.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sort of but the talkie part originated from a Russian invasion of some country

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, which was crushed by Soviet tanks.

How ironic that Hungary is now Russia's pawn in the EU.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Another layer of irony, US conservatives love Viktor Orban of Hungary and even I had him speak at CPAC.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

A few days ago Hungary's minister of foreign affairs said that if Trump was president the war in Ukraine never would have happened because Putin feared Trump too much. What a fucking joke, can't decide which dick to suck.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not much ironic considering how... fascism-leaning Hungary always was, historically. It was a large faction of Hungarian native politicians who invited Soviet intervention in the first place. The Hungarian secret service at the time also shot at protesters, which escalated the protests. Moscow at the time wasn't an entire culprit, that changed with 1968. But internal power struggle is at core of these interventions, to legitimise them Moscow needed collaborationists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ironic since they running out of tanks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

So should the opposite faction be called tractorie?