this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2024
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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.

A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The bolshivek revolution made it certain that any communist nation is a dictatorship. The menshiveks would have achieved better results.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The Mensheviks wouldn't have been much more different than German and French socialdemocrats who accepted capitalism. But there were other relevant left-leaning political forces during the Russian Revolution that were neither Bolsheviks nor Mensheviks - I wonder what happened with them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Wait until you learn whatt the SPD did to the Spartactus League.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I wonder what happened with them?

Gulag happened to them.