The crushing of the Hungarian Revolution was also the origin of the (mainly British) term “tankie”, to indicate a leftist who is too authoritarian and/or willing to defend atrocities committed in the name of socialism.
In the literal sense, a “tankie” was someone who approved of the Soviet Union’s sending in the tanks to Hungary (and, later, Czechoslovakia).
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The crushing of the Hungarian Revolution was also the origin of the (mainly British) term “tankie”, to indicate a leftist who is too authoritarian and/or willing to defend atrocities committed in the name of socialism.
In the literal sense, a “tankie” was someone who approved of the Soviet Union’s sending in the tanks to Hungary (and, later, Czechoslovakia).