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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

After all, the original tankies cheered on the Soviet crushing of the Hungarian revolution, a revolution led by the local communists who wanted to remain a communist country, just not a soviet country.

Hungarians: "Actually, our interim government consists of a supermajority of socialist parties and we intend to-"

Tankies today: "F A S C I S T S"

I can honestly afford tankies back then a little more leeway - at least some of them were simply ignorant and giving the Sovs the benefit of the doubt given the limited ability to filter through information across the Iron Curtain reliably - but now we have so much information at our fingertips that it's hard to believe people still repeat long-discredited propaganda.

Ignore the Sea Lion below me. He's just JAQing off, as tankies love to do. I have him blocked, but I still get notifications lmao.

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

To be fair, Viktor Orbán is pretty fascist, and has kind of made himself Prime Minister for life. The current Hungarian Parliament is made up of Conservative and Far right ideologies, so not very socialist at all.

But yeah, the Soviets killed a lot of good communist leaders back in 1956. And the Tankies cheered (which was how they were named.)

[–] TokenBoomer -1 points 1 year ago

Way to throw the baby out with the bath water. Because a bad thing happened in 1956, all communists today are evil?