c/socialism · by Bear_with_a_hammer@lemmy.ml · 2yIf some people call us "tankies", could we call them "cappies"? :D -18 points · 2 comments · view on lemmy.world
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Potatisen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Why tankies?
JoBo@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 2y
It's a reference to the Soviet tanks rolling into Hungary, and later Czechoslovakia, and the Western lefties (originally, the CPGB) who did not get disillusioned by the authoritarianism of the USSR at that time.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y