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.
Even knowing the real history of the term, I still headcanonically think of it as someone who looks at that famous picture of a guy standing in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square and finds themself rooting for the tanks.
Thats the same thing. Those tanks rolled over students before two photo was taken
It’s the same picture