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Your average person in the former USSR who grew up with a Soviet, communist mentality. Typically an old, middle aged boomer who likes watching cringy Russian bandit movies in their spare time who just wants to go back to how it was in their childhood.
Tankies are usually very for strict gender roles and patriarchy, homophobic, and ableist (unless it's a: narcissist, alcoholic, psychopath, or some other harmful disability).
They also hate technology and think GPS navigation makes people retarded, and really hate swearing and children enjoying anything edgier than Dora the Explorer (I.e SpongeBob)
Despite being raised atheist, they're usually into Islam or Christianity on a surface level, depending on what former Soviet country do they come from. They also typically encourage narcissist-like behavior and assholery in people.
Authentic tankies that aren't LARPers on weird political circlejerk communities aren't commonly found outside former USSR countries.
Matvey: My tankie dad forces us to use outdated maps whenever we go on road trips because he thinks GPS is bourgeois and would make us retarded!
Olga, his friend: Oh, and my tankie mom doesn't let me watch SpongeBob because she thinks it's too bourgeois and would make my brain shrink!
A person who thinks war is cool and descends into the devious act of communism in order to act upon that interest
Me: hey that guy, he's a tankie
My friend: wanna jump him?
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A young male, usually between the ages of 13 and 21 who spends way to much time on reddit and 4chan, and who is a strong supporter of communism, especially the soviet union because it sounds nice and has a cool national anthem. Will also go out of there way to find reasons why the USSR is (was) cooler than the U.S.
Similar to commieboo
Person #1: Wow, did you know 70 million people died in communist china?
Person #2: But that wasn't real communism!
Person #1: Shut up tankie
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"Tankie" refers to principled Communists who have the balls to support and carry on the tradition of supporting revolunarys across the globe instead of LARPers who's "Leftist activism" begins and ends at screaming "b-B-but nOoOt rEaL cOmmUnisM"
It is used mostly in online spaces by self-proclaimed "anarchists" (read: anti-communists and Liberals who like dressing their slogans in rosy sounding language draping them in red and black)
Bob: "your a real Tankie, you know that?"
Felix: "damn right you f****** Lib"
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Authoritarian larpers that say the holodomor never happened, that everything bad communism did was "ummm capitalism actually", that the purges were "good actually" and unironically simp for Stalin without even realizing they would be the first people in the gulag. -Count Dankula
80-year-old Ukrainian man: my entire family was killed by the NKVD
Tankie: they deserved it probably
empathetic humans: shut the f--k up Tankie
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(noun) A leftist who is so overly concerned with not being mistaken for a liberal that they accidentally became a conservative.
Kyle: Everyone is so obsessed with identity politics now.
Rosa: Don't be such a tankie, Kyle.
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Tankie is to describe those who supported/is supporting the economic and political system of the USSR and other socialist nations both existing and/or previously existing states and their leaders particularly Stalin and Mao, While also strictly criticising these states methods and execution.
Used commonly as an insult from anarchists and other ideologies.
Damn i hate the ussr because none of my ideology actually achieves something to society. I hate those red fascist tankies for making me look like a hippie gathering than an revolution!
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