Bsocialism·SocialismbyBear_with_a_hammer If some people call us "tankies", could we call them "cappies"? :DView original on lemmy.ml-18Comments2
JJoBo replyfeddit.ukIt'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.3
Why tankies?
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.