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What's a Tankie? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I'm asking the people who know better than Google.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm aware that the standard opinion in western countries is pro-imperialist and anti-communist. Among the actual hard data we have, it's irrefutable that socialist countries have been responsible for the greatest improvements in quality of life for the greatest number of people in the shortest timespan possible. It's also irrefutable that the USSR was de-escalationary the entire Cold War while the US Empire was for escalation, considered dropping over a dozen nukes on Korea, etc. These are documented and accessible facts.

You have no idea how old I am, either, you just wanted to add a condescending jab because I refused to dox myself.