When you're in a discussion with Tankies and they start defending Stalin's relocation of ethnic groups.

Luckily IRL real dickhead tankies like there are on /r/communism are pretty rare, it's too bad the few that do exist are generally loud and obnoxious enough to tarnish the whole rest of the progressive movement.

Some guy tried to argue with me that literally all the Old Bolsheviks that were executed in the show trials were part of a massive "cosmopolitan" (dog whistle for Jewish) conspiracy to assassinate Stalin and install a fascist government (ironic!). Apparently, 99% of the original revolutionaries other than Lenin and Stalin were actually covert agents, and Lenin personally chose Stalin to lead over the party on his deathbed. :(.

These tend to be the same people that call Rojava imperialist puppets for taking arms from the US whilst at the same time defending the Molotov-Rippentrop Pact, claim that the Hungarian Revolution was fascist and unironically support the use of "re-education camps".

Tankies are twats.

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