They’ve gotten very strange in the past year or so. I’ve seen multiple dbzer0 users, including two admins, do complete 180s on tankie bullshit, and it’s rather bizarre.

My best guess is that tankies offer them a sense of community, which is how many terminally online folk get drawn into it. People who have a deep desire for community will overlook moral issues if invited to be a part of that community, and even adopt, consciously or unconsciously, those positions in order to better ‘fit in’ with the community.

In a time when the real world is more recognizably hostile than ever, or at least for as long as most of us here have been alive (insofar as we are both aware of it and noting that it is backsliding rather than improving), online communities probably seem quite tempting to hew closer to.

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[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The thing it was intended to prevent was further unrest in Crimea from the Crimean Tatars where many wanted national sovereignty (had been a thing since they were annexed by the Russian Empire in the 18th century). Them having goals of sovereignty made them an easy target for foreign powers (Something that the Russian Empire used prior to annexing Crimea in fact). Crimea was also a strategically important province (much as it is now) due to its location.

WW2 was over, and the Soviet Union was fine and dandy to allow the Tatars who fought with the partisans and fought in the red army continue to fight and die for the cause until the end of the war before ethnically cleansing them. If we are writing fanfiction where the Nazis spontaneously rise again from being completely crushed by the Soviets we may as well say that they could have invaded the Levant and would have had merry compradors that weren't considered Aryan in the least until it became convenient in order to weaken British power in the region at which point they became True Romans and Aryan.

Anyway, are you saying that it was justified or not? Because you're awfully defensive about the ethnic cleansing.