70 Years ago the USSR rolled tanks into Budapest to crush the Hungarian uprising. British communists invented the term “tankie” to describe comrades who supported the soviets crushing dissent.
70 Years ago the USSR rolled tanks into Budapest to crush the Hungarian uprising. British communists invented the term “tankie” to describe comrades who supported the soviets crushing dissent.
Remember, don’t let the tankies label legitimate socialist revolutionaries like in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1968 as “capitalist counterrevolutionaries”. Alexander Dubcek (Prague Spring) was a saint and Imre Nagy was decent for his role in the Hungarian revolution.