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How it feels to scroll Lemmy as an Eastern European
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No, tankie is a reference to Soviets using tanks to quell uprisings in Hungary (1956) and Czechoslovakia (1968).
Tankies are not leftists, they're authoritarian simps that hate the United States and love China/Russia. If you think Russia is leftist you're insane, doubly so for China.
Edit: I also find it funny that the person I'm responding to has had this explanation given to them already.
Edit 2: Ok that may have been an honest mistake, I'm sorry I'm just like a raw nerve when it comes to this topic.
Maybe that person, whoever they are, has amnesia. Or dementia.
Or were just engaging in the thread not paying attention, I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation.