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Re:Leaked document: EU Presidency calls for massive internet... by forapurpose on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @12:17PM (#15184829)
> tankie

Tankies? I think of that as the Communists who supported Stalin's invasion of Hungary in the 1950s. What does that mean here?

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Re:Leaked document: EU Presidency calls for massive internet... by JBReefer on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @01:02PM (#15185213)
Yeah - there's a ton of them around the internet these days. Tankies are the sort of people who defend the Venezuelan and North Korean governments on r/socialism, for example.

I have no idea what chunk of the actual population they are, but I know a lot of people in Antifa self identify as tankies. I could be wrong though, usually am.

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