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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.

A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.

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A post on Ask Lemmygrad by user Cyber Ghost titled "What are the reasons why Russia attacked Ukraine?"

Below is the comment by user @cfgaussian reading: "The Nazi Kiev regime attacked the ethnically Russian Donbass for eight years intending to commit genocide in their quest for an ethnically pure Ukraine and Russia finally came to their aid after it became clear that the Minsk agreements were never going to be honored. Also, NATO was turning Ukraine into a hyper militarized threat to the integrity and security of Russia itself. Refusal of the US and Europe to negotiate on a new inclusive security framework, refusal to stop NATO expansion eastward, and the relentless and violent anti-Russian psychosis that has gripped Ukraine since the Maiden coup that triggered a civil war in a country in which half or more of the population are essentially Russian became intolerable."

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That still seems like a lot of Nazis.

[โ€“] adriaan 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to discount it as a problem.. but a lot of Eastern Europe has this issue. Hell, not even just Eastern Europe. Fascist parties exist in most places, Ukraine does not really stand out in this aspect.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Example of fascist party: United Russia

[โ€“] tomatopathe 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Nazis get 19% in France, nobody suggests that it's ok to invade France.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I feel like the nazis would

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wait you're right. Why aren't we invading France?! /s

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It is. But there's even more white supremacists in Russia, including many prominent government officials.

[โ€“] winterayars 6 points 1 year ago

Ukraine has a legit problem with Nazis yes. Russia has no room to judge, however.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It is and something that needs to be dealt with. But the issue is much worse in surrounding countries like Russia. Hell, one of the puppets Russia installed in DPR was a Nazi.