I can’t really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by “both” sides of the spectrum. It’s just something I find interesting.

    • varzaman@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      I literally saw a guy earlier today in that one large memes thread trying to convince people that Eastern European countries yearn for the USSR days.

      Only tankies try to do that lol.

            • GoodEye8@lemm.ee
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              2 years ago

              So really not a lot of people, mostly Russians and countries that have strong ties to Russia.

              That’s what the first source says and as someone already pointed to a more recent polling showing that it’s no longer the case for eastern European countries.

              Hungary source is an old article and the same recent polling shows otherwise.

              Romania source link doesn’t even work.

              Eastern Germany is a pretty complex and nuanced topic, one that I won’t get into so I’ll give that one the benefit of the doubt that they actually want soviet socialism back.

              Czech source link also doesn’t work.

              Serbia source literally has the article saying “the Serbian citizens primarily refer to better economic situation and standard of living, but the majority of them would not go back to that period.”

              And then there’s the Russian part, which is completely understandable considering the USSR was just a form of Russian imperialism.

    • realitista@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 years ago

      Tankies are a tiny subset of extreme far leftists which even far leftists have a right to despise, though.

        • SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          Because they’re very vocal online, are annoying, and also give actual leftists bad rep. If you’re promoting egalitarianism and distributing social power among everyone, you wouldn’t like people who support authoritarism to share a label with you.

            • SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world
              0·
              2 years ago

              Are you saying this as a retort to me indirectly calling tankies authoritarians? If so, that’s pretty rich.

              The Soviet Union suppressed people who used Marxist analysis to argue that the higher echelons of the party aparatus had constituted itself as a separate, dominant class that held the ultimate political power, which resulted in a tendency to exert that power undisputed and continued accumulation of privileges. Once enough time had passed, some of the people leading that aparatus decided they wanted an even larger share of the cake, so they decided to drop the pretense, drop the nominal communism and embrace privatisation. When working people tried to oppose that process, the authoritarian state used its repressive forces to protect the ruling class. What is most interesting about this is that you can see similar processes in almost every single country that followed the leninist vanguardist model, ultimately losing any political equality that was initially sought in its revolution, and any self-respecting Marxist should have taken the hint that this makes Leninism and its godchildren a failed avenue for socialism.

              To connect this with your not too hidden assertion that “since every state is authoritarian, me supporting authoritarian states is ok”: any state and society is going to decide the margins outside of which behavior and politics are not acceptable, but that is absolutely no excuse to give free reign to any government to become as authoritarian as they aim to no matter the cost. When we do that, we come across disgusting situations such as the difficulties for working class Chinese people being unable to self-organize and protect their rights if the local party strongman arbitrarily decides they’re too much trouble. Any kind of emancipatory project soon turns crippled under those circumstances, which you could have easily noticed if you weren’t drown in liturgy.