cm0002@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agoGuess I'm on the right track 😌lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1677arrow-down191file-text
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minus-squarestringere@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down4·edit-22 months agoEdit: I was wrong below and am corrected in replies to this comment. The moniker Tankie is a reference to the Tiananmen Square Massacre because of their minimalizing or outright denials regarding the incident.
minus-squarenickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 months agoIt predates that, actually. Goes back to the USSR sending tanks into Eastern Europe to put down rebellion.
minus-squareSkyezOpen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 months agoNo, it was coined for those who supported the soviet invasions of Hungary and czechoslovakia in 1956 and 1968.
Thanks! (Tanks?)
Edit: I was wrong below and am corrected in replies to this comment.
The moniker Tankie is a reference to the Tiananmen Square Massacre because of their minimalizing or outright denials regarding the incident.It predates that, actually. Goes back to the USSR sending tanks into Eastern Europe to put down rebellion.
Yep, the Prague spring.
No, it was coined for those who supported the soviet invasions of Hungary and czechoslovakia in 1956 and 1968.