Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 days agoThe term “tankie” originated in the UK in regard to opposing responses to the Hungarian uprising, which has since been declassified as yet another US backed coup attempt. Authoritarian communists are the only ones who don’t get fucked by the CIA, simple as.
Yeah, wonder why the CIA leaves the violent extremists alone when it continually targets the ma and pa movements, instead?
Almost like one of those is a true threat to the world order and the other is just a different coat of paint. But don’t think about it too much, might lose your tankie cred
The CIA has absolutely not at any point in living memory left anyone alone unless they allowed their resources and markets to be exploited by the US like good little vassals. You are historically and politically illiterate.
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The CIA had interests in seeing the weakening of the USSR, obviously, but you don’t seriously believe that the CIA was able to convince hundreds of thousands of Hungarian citizens as well as virtually every socialist party in Hungary to fight against their own better interests, do you? And even if true, how does that in any way take away from the thousands of Hungarian civilians killed or maimed?
And that doesn’t remotely touch on the Prague Spring
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Hundreds of thousands? Be serious
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
At least 200,000 people were exiles as a direct result, so yes, hundreds of thousands participated
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
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