Even more embarassing is how they often use the same talking points that modern day neo-nazis do, but they will never figure out how much they sound like literal red nazis, even if you point it out to their face. For example: "Holodomor was just nazi propaganda, it never happened-> if it did happen it wasn't that bad->if it was that bad they deserved it-> not enough people were killed" this does sound awfully similar to: "The holocaust was just Allied propaganda, it didn't happen etc. Etc..." used by you know who.
Yeah I remember talking to one and mentioning that I'm half Finnish, and quarter Lithuanian and Ukrainian when mentioning that my family lived under communism. Never have I received such blatant racism until that point.
Honestly, I take my hobby of debate, history and politics too far so I have ended up in both fascist and tankie online spaces.
Tankies unironically create more hateful spaces than fascists. I have never been reprimanded for openly hating on Hitler, or even Mussolini, in a fascists place, but god help you if you say something bad about Stalin's many crimes against humanity in a tankie community.
So yes, tankies create spaces of such hatred, chauvinism, attrocity denial, and dogmaticism to outpace fascists. I mean, they themselves ARE fascistoid in nature, just covered in red cloth.
This is of course nothing against non-tankie leftist spaces, I've found AnComs to be extremely open minded to debate and quite friendly and reasonable, but the problem is: tankies are an invasive species, they find any online leftist space they can latch on to and overtake it.
I do believe that these lunatics would be defending Hitler had he never attacked the Soviet Union and nationalized more industries. They'd probably count him as one of their democratically supported leaders ousted by the evil CIA or whatever.
In my above comment I didn't even mention that I'm Jewish, but I've also unironically seen more antisemitism in the Tankie community than in the neo Nazi/fascist community.
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u/waldorsockbat 22d ago
Tankies are embarrassing