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I thought 'tankie' came from a video game. Turns out it's been around since the USSR decided to roll into Hungary.
The Hungarian uprising was killing Jews in the street. It was anti-Semitic from the beginning and the “Jewish Bolshevik” idea from the Nazi era was a motivating factor with the fact several leaders of the Hungarian government were Jewish cited as a battle cry.
https://www.jta.org/2006/10/25/lifestyle/1956-crises-decimated-two-communities
After the uprising, 200,000 Hungarian Jews fled the country fearing it signaled a return of the antisemitism of the recent Nazi-collaborationist regime of the 1940s.
Sending the tanks in to stop this was a good thing. It would have been better if the anti-Semitic uprising was stopped before the pogroms started.
Ok tankie
Yup. Thankfully they were able to crush the revolt before the fascists were able to re-establish the Arrow Cross Party.
oh shit hexbearites are talking about hungary again, gotta ditch the thread lmao
Órban still has fond memories of that...he was 7 in 1956, he probably remembers.
Which is funny, since crushing the revolt was the only reason it took people like Orban so long to regain power.