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Christopher F
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Christopher F asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 2 years ago

When and why did people arguing political philosophy on the left start referring to Stalinists as "tankies"?

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  • Anonymous
    2 years ago
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    Tankies are the crews of tanks.

    Have a look at Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

  • humpty
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    I have never heard that expression, and I argue history with a lot of leftists.

  • Alberich
    2 years ago

    Because tanks are their preferred method of discourse

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