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I really hated the word tankie when i joined lemmy, it felt like it was thrown around too much, but then i really started seeing "communists" "critically supporting" Russia, despite being a far right shithole, like you only need to see who where the allies of Russia in Europe, weeks before the war started they were meeting with Meloni from Italy, Vox (fascist far right) from Spain and similar parties from other sides of Europe. Some communists are so in love with the idea of the USSR that cant really see that Putin is just your average far right dictator.
Thankfully in Spain you dont see this happening as much as in some lemmy communities.
Yeah, I mean, over the years, I've gone far left enough that I believe that capitalism must be dismantled as it's incompatible with democracy. I'm not exactly conservative. But good god, some parts of Lemmy would make me out to be a Gilded Age Robber-Baron for calling out Russia as an imperialist fascist state. It's insane. And exhausting. I hate dealing with it.
Luckily, it's not nearly as bad as it was back when Grad and Hexbear were still federated.
I've been on Lemmy some 8 months I think and I've never seen anyone do that. I have seen plenty of Ruski trolls spamming "don't vote genocide Joe", but I haven't really seen anyone pretending to be for the Russian side in the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Maybe your instance defederated with them already.