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This term goes back to the 1968 Prague spring.
It was an uprising, an attempt by the Czechoslovak communist party at reformation towards more democracy and freedom of the press. Then troops from other members of the Warsaw pact marched in and subdued it.
From then on, communists who supported more democracy and freedom called the pro-quelling communists "tankies" as they marched in with tanks.
Wasn't it recently declassified that the ~velvet revolution~ was indeed a CIA plot?
Edit: oof wrong one, I was talking about 1956 not 1989
Velvet was '89, as far as I know it was the CIA's involvement with nationalist groups in Hungary that was revealed.
Oof mb, I was talking about 68 but got mixed up.
No worries! Either way it was '56 though, lol.
Yup, Iβm mixing up my counter revolutions lol
Not that it matters much, weβre just a few years away from declassification for those anyway
We'll see!