Wasn’t tankie originally cold war British Communist slang to refer to people who agreed that the Hungarian revolution of 1956-1968
Was funded by the CIA and that rolling the tanks in was as such an appropriate response
(No I don’t have this memorized so I had to double check but that was the original meaning)
Wasn’t tankie originally cold war British Communist slang to refer to people who agreed that the Hungarian revolution of 1956-1968 Was funded by the CIA and that rolling the tanks in was as such an appropriate response
(No I don’t have this memorized so I had to double check but that was the original meaning)
Pretty much that, yes.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tankie
Mildly amusingly… it is apparently also a slang term for a tank engine, as in, a steam powered train.
Choo-Choo!