Tankie

Tankie

Tankie was a pejorative term referring to members of the Communist Party of Great Britain who followed a slavishly pro-Kremlin stance, approving of the crushing of revolts in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia by Soviet tanks.

The term originated from 1956, when the CPGB lost a lot of members, who left in protest at the Soviet invasion of Hungary.


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