Comment on Guess I'm on the right track 😌

• inbeesee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thanks! (Tanks?)

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  • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The moniker Tankie is a reference to the Tiananmen Square Massacre because of their minimalizing or outright denials regarding the incident.

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    • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It predates that, actually. Goes back to the USSR sending tanks into Eastern Europe to put down rebellion.

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yep, the Prague spring.

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, it was coined for those who supported the soviet invasions of Hungary and czechoslovakia in 1956 and 1968.

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