@backhdlp the term was invented to describe those communists in the West who thought Rákosi (a Hungarian Stalinist) [edit: whoever it was, there’s a communist historian correcting me downthread] did nothing wrong when he and Kruschev sent military tanks into Hungary to force them to stay in the Soviet Union. That was in the 1950s.
@OurToothbrush oops you’re right, it was some of the Stalinists who succeded him. Have edited, thanks for educating me in such a polite way!
Edit this entire conversation takes place twice in this thread, to avoid spamming I’m replying to them elsewhere. Tl;dr is the tankies think Kruschevand the Stalinist Hungarian, Rákosi, did nothing wrong.
IIRC it is specifically attributed to a magazine or paper that the British Communist Party had put out where one especially sadistic supporter of the authoritarians actually pre-empted the response by demanding the Soviets “send in the tanks.”
@backhdlp the term was invented to describe those communists in the West who thought
Rákosi (a Hungarian Stalinist)[edit: whoever it was, there’s a communist historian correcting me downthread] did nothing wrong when he and Kruschev sent military tanks into Hungary to force them to stay in the Soviet Union. That was in the 1950s.Wikipedia on Hungarian Revolution
When did stalin die and when did the hungarian revolt happen?
@OurToothbrush oops you’re right, it was some of the Stalinists who succeded him. Have edited, thanks for educating me in such a polite way!
Edit this entire conversation takes place twice in this thread, to avoid spamming I’m replying to them elsewhere. Tl;dr is the tankies think Kruschev
and the Stalinist Hungarian, Rákosi,did nothing wrong.Are you calling krushchev a stalinist? They guy who led destalinization?
No. You should read their edited comment.
IIRC it is specifically attributed to a magazine or paper that the British Communist Party had put out where one especially sadistic supporter of the authoritarians actually pre-empted the response by demanding the Soviets “send in the tanks.”
@PhlubbaDubba thanks, that’s interesting. Scary too.