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it has even remained the same historically

lmao no it hasn’t. It originally referred specifically to people that supported the USSR putting down the Hungarian anti-communist protests. By the time “tankie” became a word (that only really ever had relevance in the UK) Stalin was long dead.

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Yea, people that supported a dictatorial regime with socialist aesthetics as in the USSR. What part of that has changed?

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The USSR was literally more democratic than bourgeois democracy.

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It really depends on which bourgeois democracy. I may agree if compared to the US (I’m not too educated on the US so I could be wrong) but few others.

Though I fail to understand how that has anything to do with the topic of tankie having a consistent definition.

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