when will leftists realize that survivors of extremely violent and repressive communist regimes speaking about their experiences is not propaganda <3
if your support of an ideology cannot stand up to scrutiny and you cannot hold that ideology in balance with the reality of when its been enacted on a state level, you should not be purporting that ideology in the first place. go back to sleep. and starve.
This is is a very real problem in leftist spaces that should be acknowledged more often. Even worse than the existence of tankies is the fact that they’re tolerated. You’ll see “fashists/nazis DNI”, and justly so, but very rarely “tankies DNI”, because apparently supporting violent imperialistic regimes is okay as long as they’re leftist. People will ignore speaking over Eastern people, including first-hand survivors, on their generational trauma. When a Western leftist performs a literal genocide denial shit (like those “Holodomor was a natural disaster” people), they rarely if ever face much backlash.
Western tankies are inherently Western supremacist, because their narrative of communist utopia is more important to them than death and suffering of millions Eastern people.
