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minus-squareCannotSleep420@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·8 months agoIn 1956 the USSR rolled tanks into Hungary to stop a fascist counter revolution. Communists who correctly supported this action were labeled tankies.
minus-squareJoBo@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·8 months agoIt’s a reference to the Soviet tanks rolling into Hungary, and later Czechoslovakia, and the Western lefties (originally, the CPGB) who did not get disillusioned by the authoritarianism of the USSR at that time.
Why tankies?
In 1956 the USSR rolled tanks into Hungary to stop a fascist counter revolution. Communists who correctly supported this action were labeled tankies.
It’s a reference to the Soviet tanks rolling into Hungary, and later Czechoslovakia, and the Western lefties (originally, the CPGB) who did not get disillusioned by the authoritarianism of the USSR at that time.