Yes, many tankies like me are supporters of the state that saved Europe from fascism including tens of millions of people from extermination. Also supportive of the lowest inequality rates in the history of the region, rapid industrialization, guaranteed employment, universal healthcare, free education to the highest level, guaranteed housing, universal retirement pensions, highest rates of unionization, and doubling-tripling of life expectancy, without engaging in colonialism or unequal exchange and supporting liberation movements all over Latin America, Africa and Asia.
The original term “tankie” refers to the usage of tanks way earlier, by the USSR in the Czechoslovak revolution attempt.
China did not use tanks against civilians in the Tiananmen protests, the famous picture of “tank man” is a screenshot of a video in which the civilian stops the tank, has a ten minute conversation with the tank driver, and then goes away by himself.
I have criticism for social policy in the USSR, but let’s not forget that in 1917 the country was composed of 85% peasants who worked the land almost enslaved to the landowners for miserable wages, and up to 1905 the majority of peasants praised the tsar’s godgiven power to rule over them.
Let’s also not forget what we compare it with. “Liberal paradises” such as France were murdering more than a million Algerians in the Algerian war of independence in the 1960s.
Sorry, I honestly can’t tell much about femboys in the USSR.
The Soviet poet Mayakovksy had big puppyboy energy though, signing many poems and letters with drawings of a dog and writing things like trips on his paws
The ones I talked to were more like fans of the Sowjet union.
Yes, many tankies like me are supporters of the state that saved Europe from fascism including tens of millions of people from extermination. Also supportive of the lowest inequality rates in the history of the region, rapid industrialization, guaranteed employment, universal healthcare, free education to the highest level, guaranteed housing, universal retirement pensions, highest rates of unionization, and doubling-tripling of life expectancy, without engaging in colonialism or unequal exchange and supporting liberation movements all over Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Isn’t tankie describing when China used tanks against their own people? I thought it referenced Tiananmen Square.
The original term “tankie” refers to the usage of tanks way earlier, by the USSR in the Czechoslovak revolution attempt.
China did not use tanks against civilians in the Tiananmen protests, the famous picture of “tank man” is a screenshot of a video in which the civilian stops the tank, has a ten minute conversation with the tank driver, and then goes away by himself.
So why is June 4th banned and you can’t talk about Tiananmen Square in China then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DbijSAH1-Q
Can you show me the particular moment in the 2h long video in which the tanks are firing on / rolling over protestors?
It’s towards the end.
Can you give me a timestamp?
Is this a chatgpt response for “List lots of advantages of positive things about the sowjet union and ignore the negative stuff”?
It was so successful that 4 districts of it decided to leave it in 1990 and 11 more in 1991.
Whataboutism and accusing me of being a chatbot, thats a 2 for 1!
If Euroep is so good, why did the entirety of Africa, Asia and Latin America have literal independence wars to leave it?
idk man, not enough femboys in the ussr, your point is invalid.
I have criticism for social policy in the USSR, but let’s not forget that in 1917 the country was composed of 85% peasants who worked the land almost enslaved to the landowners for miserable wages, and up to 1905 the majority of peasants praised the tsar’s godgiven power to rule over them.
Let’s also not forget what we compare it with. “Liberal paradises” such as France were murdering more than a million Algerians in the Algerian war of independence in the 1960s.
im talking about femboys here
Sorry, I honestly can’t tell much about femboys in the USSR.
The Soviet poet Mayakovksy had big puppyboy energy though, signing many poems and letters with drawings of a dog and writing things like trips on his paws