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@dans_root One who supports communist dictatorships just because they aren't capitalist. This often entails denying the oppression and genocide in the #USSR and #PRC. The hardcore tankies also support #NorthKorea and deny anything bad ever happens there. The truly loonie ones think #PolPot was a goodie.
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Originally, the term referred to people in capitalist countries who cheered for the #SovietUnion sending tanks into #WarsawPact countries to violently prevent people from asking that their countries stop being puppets of Moscow.
In modern times, this attitude manifests as a fetishisation of Russia as the global good guys because they oppose America on the world stage and used to be communist. Modern tankies support Putin the way American conservatives support Trump.