195

4184 readers

1 users here now

RULE 1: IF YOU VISIT THIS COMMUNITY, YOU MUST POST BEFORE LEAVING!!

The Lemmy equivalent of r/195 on Reddit. Not officially affiliated (yet).
Any moderators from the reddit can have mod here, just ask.
There's another 196 over on [email protected] Most people use the Blahaj.zone one so this place isn't very active. ALL HAIL LORD SPRONKUS!!!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

MrKaplan

179

What the fuck are you talking about? (rule) (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by gemerant to c/196

55 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Does the word Tankie comes from the tanks in tinnamen square?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

The term "tankie" was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.[5][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Tankie refers to the when Russia sent tanks in Hungary to stop them from setting up a communist government that didn't follow their particular communist ideology.

[–] BaldManGoomba 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sort of but the talkie part originated from a Russian invasion of some country

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, which was crushed by Soviet tanks.

How ironic that Hungary is now Russia's pawn in the EU.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Another layer of irony, US conservatives love Viktor Orban of Hungary and even I had him speak at CPAC.

[–] alokir 9 points 2 years ago

A few days ago Hungary's minister of foreign affairs said that if Trump was president the war in Ukraine never would have happened because Putin feared Trump too much. What a fucking joke, can't decide which dick to suck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Third layer of irony is that conservatives and tankies agree on something: Authoritarian governments are cool because they oppose the fairly liberal modern western society.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's not much ironic considering how... fascism-leaning Hungary always was, historically. It was a large faction of Hungarian native politicians who invited Soviet intervention in the first place. The Hungarian secret service at the time also shot at protesters, which escalated the protests. Moscow at the time wasn't an entire culprit, that changed with 1968. But internal power struggle is at core of these interventions, to legitimise them Moscow needed collaborationists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ironic since they running out of tanks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So should the opposite faction be called tractorie?

[–] zeppo 1 points 2 years ago

Ox-cart Plowers