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What is with the lemmy community's deep fear or tankies? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago by insurgentrat@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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There's dozens or harassment communities, if you say anything that's not pure, weapons grade condemnation of anything USSR or AES nuts accusations start getting levelled.

Internet communists have to be like the most irrelevant political bloc in the world. Even if you take the stance that everyone is hoping for a return of purges that's still just a completely irrelevant group. Most people I've seen being accused of tankyness is are more nuanced.

Wtf is going on. I thought it would settle down after the reddit migration faded.

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[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago

Good insight! My family is Polish and left after the war. My exposure to the complexity of wtf happened started at a young age, like my grandmother lamenting how curtailed her rights were in Australia vs soviet Poland where she was respected as an independent worker. While also discussing the atrocities that happened during the occupation and the trauma of marginalising religious life and shit by force.

I suppose halfway across the world it's just "reds and blacks bad. Glorious allies (no no the white allies (Slavs weren't white yet)) save the world"

So it looks like I'm defending something universally horrible, instead of trying to be like why did things go the way they did?