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Tankies?
People who simp for horrific regimes like the Soviet Union, just because the regime waves a red flag and claims to be socialist.
They got the name in the 1950s after the Soviet Union sent in tanks to crush democratic socialists in Hungary, and some people still parroted the Soviet 'party line'.
how was soviet union horrific regime? how is europe not horrific? can you elaborate?