ItsYaBoiBananaBoi [he/him]@hexbear.net to anarchism@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years agoThank god this place is here, I was un c/the_dunk_tank for 5 minutes and I lost so many braincells. That place is a literal hellholemessage-squaremessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareThank god this place is here, I was un c/the_dunk_tank for 5 minutes and I lost so many braincells. That place is a literal hellholeItsYaBoiBananaBoi [he/him]@hexbear.net to anarchism@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square106fedilink
minus-squareTachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years ago tankie Do you know the historical origins of the term, tankie, perchance?
minus-squareTachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoIt specifically was a slander against Khruschev for putting down a “revolution” in Hungary. That revolution was a CIA-backed “color revolution.” where fascists were doing pogroms against Jews and Communists. https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/VRz8Ef9DqP.png
Do you know the historical origins of the term, tankie, perchance?
Stalinists.
It specifically was a slander against Khruschev for putting down a “revolution” in Hungary. That revolution was a CIA-backed “color revolution.” where fascists were doing pogroms against Jews and Communists.
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/VRz8Ef9DqP.png