70 Years ago the USSR rolled tanks into Budapest to crush the Hungarian uprising. British communists invented the term "tankie" to describe comrades who supported the soviets crushing dissent.

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[–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Even knowing the real history of the term, I still headcanonically think of it as someone who looks at that famous picture of a guy standing in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square and finds themself rooting for the tanks.

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