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The people who initially coined it weren't necessarily pacifists, they just disagreed with how the Soviets conducted themselves in Eastern Europe. But otherwise yeah, you've got it.
Tankie mostly gets used by centrist liberal types to punch left, but I've seen Tucker Carlson's weird Russia sycophancy get called Tankie once or twice also ¯_(ツ)_/¯