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I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I'm asking the people who know better than Google.

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[-] wieson@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

This term goes back to the 1968 Prague spring.

It was an uprising, an attempt by the Czechoslovak communist party at reformation towards more democracy and freedom of the press. Then troops from other members of the Warsaw pact marched in and subdued it.

From then on, communists who supported more democracy and freedom called the pro-quelling communists "tankies" as they marched in with tanks.

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[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

I never encountered its usage outside of the fediverse but appears to mean someone who espouses communist things but also is a russia/china apologist politically. Appears to be derogetory.

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