tankie
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What tankie means
A derogatory term for a leftist who defends authoritarian communist states like the USSR or China; it dates to British Communists who backed Soviet tanks in Hungary, and is mostly used by other leftists.
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A derogatory term for a leftist who defends authoritarian communist states like the USSR or China; it dates to British Communists who backed Soviet tanks in Hungary, and is mostly used by other leftists.
소련·중국 등 권위주의 사회주의 정권을 옹호하는 공산주의자를 비하하는 정치 속어다. 1956년 헝가리 봉기를 소련 탱크로 진압한 것을 지지한 영국 공산당원을 부르던 말에서 왔으며, 주로 다른 좌파들이 쓴다.
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