• PorkRoll
    25•6 months ago

    I believe it was coined by the British left when the USSR quashed the Hungarian revolution by driving tanks through their streets. Anyone still in support of them is deemed a “tankie.” Nowadays it was meant to criticize authoritarian communists.

    • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ
      4•6 months ago

      when the USSR quashed the Hungarian revolution

      quashed the Hungarian communist (democratic worker) revolution; lowercase.

      • PorkRoll
        2•6 months ago

        Right, right, they were like “you’re not doing it right!”