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How do people actually fall into the "Tankie" mindset? (anarchist.nexus)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by stinky@anarchist.nexus to c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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After seeing a megathread praising Mao Zedong, an actual mass killer, and a post about a guy saying "99% of westerners are 100000000000% sure they know what happened in 'Tiny Man Square' [...] the reasons for this are complex and involve propaganda [...]," I am genuinely curious what leads people to this belief system. Even if propaganda is involved when it comes to Tiananmen Square, it doesn't change the atrocities that were/are committed everywhere else in China.

I am all for letting people believe what they want but I am lost on why one would deliberately praise any authoritarian system this hard.

Can someone please help me understand why this is such a large and prominent community? How have these ideals garnered such a following outside of China?

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who has responded! This thread has been very insightful :)

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[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They didn't cooperate with fascist Germany, they signed a non aggression pact after they tried to rally the rest of Europe against fascist Germany and the Europeans said no and then signed their own agreements with Germany. The soviets being the last to try and avoid war with the fascists through a non aggression pact after the Europeans decided to cozy up to Germany means the soviets were the least culpable in the situation. Considering their entire economy was fucked after world war 1 and the Germans were already saying Slavic people were subhumans controlled by Jewish Bolsheviks before the non aggression pact was signed, there is literally no reason to assume bad faith on the Soviets part for trying to stave off more war for a few years to prepare for the inevitable.