The term “tankie” originated in the UK in regard to opposing responses to the Hungarian uprising, which has since been declassified as yet another US backed coup attempt. Authoritarian communists are the only ones who don’t get fucked by the CIA, simple as.
The CIA had interests in seeing the weakening of the USSR, obviously, but you don’t seriously believe that the CIA was able to convince hundreds of thousands of Hungarian citizens as well as virtually every socialist party in Hungary to fight against their own better interests, do you? And even if true, how does that in any way take away from the thousands of Hungarian civilians killed or maimed?
And that doesn’t remotely touch on the Prague Spring
You don’t understand why I’m skeptical of a ridiculously large number of “victims” attributed to the biggest force for international socialism on the planet at the time, substantiated exclusively by a nested series of “trust me bro” documents provided by the single largest political and economic rival of the country in question, a country which just happens to have a long and extremely well documented history of making shit up to justify our foreign policy? Tbh I don’t believe you, even a complete fucking moron would have no trouble wrapping their head around that.
I never said anything about “victims”. If that was your assumption, that’s on you. I said there were hundreds of thousands of people who participated in the uprising. Whatever assumptions you’re making are based on a conversation you are having with yourself
It’s not an assumption, you used words and phrases synonymous with the word victim and now you’re backpedalling and resorting to dishonest semantic fuckery because you know goddamn well that I’m right and that’s the best you’ve got.
Yeah, wonder why the CIA leaves the violent extremists alone when it continually targets the ma and pa movements, instead?
Almost like one of those is a true threat to the world order and the other is just a different coat of paint. But don’t think about it too much, might lose your tankie cred
The CIA has absolutely not at any point in living memory left anyone alone unless they allowed their resources and markets to be exploited by the US like good little vassals. You are historically and politically illiterate.
The term “tankie” originated in the UK in regard to opposing responses to the Hungarian uprising, which has since been declassified as yet another US backed coup attempt. Authoritarian communists are the only ones who don’t get fucked by the CIA, simple as.
The CIA had interests in seeing the weakening of the USSR, obviously, but you don’t seriously believe that the CIA was able to convince hundreds of thousands of Hungarian citizens as well as virtually every socialist party in Hungary to fight against their own better interests, do you? And even if true, how does that in any way take away from the thousands of Hungarian civilians killed or maimed?
And that doesn’t remotely touch on the Prague Spring
Hundreds of thousands? Be serious
At least 200,000 people were exiled as a direct result, so yes, hundreds of thousands participated
Okay…
http://mek.oszk.hu/01200/01274/01274.pdf
Pages 19, 39, 148, 195 fyi
Edit: And honestly, I don’t understand why that seems like the hang up to you
You don’t understand why I’m skeptical of a ridiculously large number of “victims” attributed to the biggest force for international socialism on the planet at the time, substantiated exclusively by a nested series of “trust me bro” documents provided by the single largest political and economic rival of the country in question, a country which just happens to have a long and extremely well documented history of making shit up to justify our foreign policy? Tbh I don’t believe you, even a complete fucking moron would have no trouble wrapping their head around that.
I never said anything about “victims”. If that was your assumption, that’s on you. I said there were hundreds of thousands of people who participated in the uprising. Whatever assumptions you’re making are based on a conversation you are having with yourself
It’s not an assumption, you used words and phrases synonymous with the word victim and now you’re backpedalling and resorting to dishonest semantic fuckery because you know goddamn well that I’m right and that’s the best you’ve got.
Yeah, wonder why the CIA leaves the violent extremists alone when it continually targets the ma and pa movements, instead?
Almost like one of those is a true threat to the world order and the other is just a different coat of paint. But don’t think about it too much, might lose your tankie cred
The CIA has absolutely not at any point in living memory left anyone alone unless they allowed their resources and markets to be exploited by the US like good little vassals. You are historically and politically illiterate.