Tankies = A word describing people who are supporting authoritarian regimes masquerading under an ever thinner veil of communism, originally against other non-authoritarian communists, suppressing communist revolutions with tanks for the personal cult of Stalin.
Also known as the people who manage to question the imperialistic motives of US leadership, then for some reason fail to have the intellectual capacity to question the imperialistic motives of the Chinese/Russian leadership.
I am not a “westerner”, the word “Tankie” was literally invented to describe people who cheered on as the USSR crushed a revolution of my grandparents’ generation who were communists against vanguardism and Soviet Russian imperialism in Eastern Europe. It is a slur against people who were cheering for Soviet tanks against communists.
The Balkans were mostly never part of the Warsaw Pact, much less the USSR. IDK how life under Tito was, but it’s not what I’m talking about.
Communist is still a swear word in most of Eastern Europe. The US never really had anything to do with my area’s development, the Soviets took whatever and whoever they could, though. In the generation above mine, a ton of people have family stories about relatives going for malenkiy robot never to be seen again. Doorbell scare was a thing as well. People were absolutely tortured to death, genocided, taken away, robbed, and so on.
Nobody sane wishes for going back to the Warsaw Pact. And not because we had less money. Ironically, the few who are nostalgic liked the economy being more stable. The part everyone hated was the repression, the killings, the disappearances, the fear.
Dude, the Balkans were non-aligned, they were never part of the Warsaw pact. Yes, the US did awful things there, but as far as I’ve heard from people who actually escaped the Yugoslav wars, nothing there was clear-cut. That said, it’s not what I’m talking about, the Balkans is not Eastern Europe, and Tito is not the USSR.
What I’m talking about is the Warsaw Pact, the socialist republics in a military and economic alliance with the Soviet Union.
Also you don’t happen to be a nazi-adjacent decsendant do you?
You couldn’t be further from the truth.
And I am sure all the people at Katyn, and all the people taken from their homes, and all the Jewish people who owned large flats in Budapest, and all the people just picked off the street, and all the people in the crowd when State Security fired into it, especially the students, and the previous chairman of the country’s communist party were all nazis or US plants or whatever.
Tankies = A word describing people who are supporting authoritarian regimes masquerading under an ever thinner veil of communism, originally against other non-authoritarian communists, suppressing communist revolutions with tanks for the personal cult of Stalin.
Also known as the people who manage to question the imperialistic motives of US leadership, then for some reason fail to have the intellectual capacity to question the imperialistic motives of the Chinese/Russian leadership.
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I am not a “westerner”, the word “Tankie” was literally invented to describe people who cheered on as the USSR crushed a revolution of my grandparents’ generation who were communists against vanguardism and Soviet Russian imperialism in Eastern Europe. It is a slur against people who were cheering for Soviet tanks against communists.
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The Balkans were mostly never part of the Warsaw Pact, much less the USSR. IDK how life under Tito was, but it’s not what I’m talking about.
Communist is still a swear word in most of Eastern Europe. The US never really had anything to do with my area’s development, the Soviets took whatever and whoever they could, though. In the generation above mine, a ton of people have family stories about relatives going for malenkiy robot never to be seen again. Doorbell scare was a thing as well. People were absolutely tortured to death, genocided, taken away, robbed, and so on.
Nobody sane wishes for going back to the Warsaw Pact. And not because we had less money. Ironically, the few who are nostalgic liked the economy being more stable. The part everyone hated was the repression, the killings, the disappearances, the fear.
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Dude, the Balkans were non-aligned, they were never part of the Warsaw pact. Yes, the US did awful things there, but as far as I’ve heard from people who actually escaped the Yugoslav wars, nothing there was clear-cut. That said, it’s not what I’m talking about, the Balkans is not Eastern Europe, and Tito is not the USSR.
What I’m talking about is the Warsaw Pact, the socialist republics in a military and economic alliance with the Soviet Union.
You couldn’t be further from the truth.
And I am sure all the people at Katyn, and all the people taken from their homes, and all the Jewish people who owned large flats in Budapest, and all the people just picked off the street, and all the people in the crowd when State Security fired into it, especially the students, and the previous chairman of the country’s communist party were all nazis or US plants or whatever.
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