74 points

Loving the anti-tankie memes, establishing this community to be based af

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49 points

Happy to be of service. Hopefully once we’ve posted enough of these tankies will stop going into the comments to spread genocide denial and authoritarian apologia.

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18 points

Laughter is the best medicine in the sense that it’s poison to things that are harmful.

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11 points

Nah, that’s a bullet.

Laughing didn’t stop the Nazis.

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29 points

Anti-tankie memes and anti-nazi memes. Y’all are alright. _

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14 points

They’re the same picture

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5 points

Sorry to ask. I guess I’m one of the lucky 10,000 today, but what is a Tankie?

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24 points

Generally someone who makes justifications and/or excuses for totalitarian communist regimes and their atrocities.

It came from still supporting Stalin after he sent tanks into a rebelling territory.

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9 points

Stalin didn’t send the tanks, he died in 1953, while the hungarian revolution happened in 1956, the prague spring uprising even later in 1968, and as far as I know the term was created in connection with these events.

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I don’t get how the USSR and CCP are actually “communist.” Are they as “communist” as North Korea is a “Democratic Republic?”

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17 points

They are Stalinists and Maoists who refuse to admit any wrongdoing by communist leaders. They are pretty prevalent on lemmy. For some reason they are typically pro Russia regarding Ukraine. Nostalgia maybe? lol

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8 points

Auth left fascists. Stalin/mauist sympathizers. Think of the polar extreme opposite of authoritarian right.

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Read things on this tankie instance to learn lemmygrad.ml

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31 points

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I installed birdsite recently and actually saw tankies for the first time in my life.

Sweet Krolm, the Rat God, what bullshit do they post.

Shit like “If it was a soviet ‘crime’ that means it wasn’t a crime at all”

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25 points

You should hear what they have to say about the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Apparently failing to stop the nazis is worse than actively assisting them in conquering and oppressing Poland.

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7 points

You don’t think they made up for it a little with 8 million+ dead soldiers fighting the Nazis? And ya kno, getting to Berlin first and ending the European theater of WWII?

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18 points

No? What the fuck? That’s not how morality works. Nothing about the Soviet Union’s values or how they made decisions changed, as evidenced by them continuing to engage in oppression and imperialist aggression right up until basically the day they collapsed.

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5 points

The soviet people and the soviet government are not the same thing. What is it with nationalists equating the state with the people subjected to it?

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3 points

ohhhh of course! how silly of us! I’m sure all the queers who lost their lives to the Soviets feel sooooo much better in their graves knowing that. tell you what, why don’t you dig some up, tell them what you just said, and see how they react. what’s that? they can’t reply? because they’re dead? well who would have fucking thought. moron

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5 points

Fun fact: Mentioning the Nazi-Soviet pact is a Federal crime in Russia today.

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3 points

Larpers.

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17 points

Western jews degeneracy capitalism is forcing my hand, we have to put all queer people in the work camps for revolution!

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4 points

Tru

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