[W]e also desired to shock the staid older party members and the tankies. The tankies and softliners differed as to what sort of magazine Challenge should be.
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Tankie
//tæŋ.ki//
Synonyms for "tankie" (1 found)
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8 translations across 6 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 蘇馬 /苏马 noun (A supporter of policies and actions by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other Marxist-Leninist governments.)
- 酥麻 noun (A supporter of policies and actions by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other Marxist-Leninist governments.)
Esperanto
1 entries- tankisto noun (A supporter of policies and actions by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other Marxist-Leninist governments.)
Finnish
2 entries- stallari noun (A supporter of policies and actions by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other Marxist-Leninist governments.)
- taistolainen noun (A supporter of policies and actions by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other Marxist-Leninist governments.)
French
1 entries- tankie noun (A supporter of policies and actions by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other Marxist-Leninist governments.)
Italian
1 entries- tankie noun (A supporter of policies and actions by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other Marxist-Leninist governments.)
Spanish
1 entries- tankie noun (A supporter of policies and actions by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other Marxist-Leninist governments.)
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Stephen Well, read the Morning Star and keep up with the tankies. / Max The tankies[…] How the years roll by. Dubcek is back. Russia agrees to withdraw its garrisons. Czechoslovakia takes her knickers off to welcome capitalism. And all that remains of August '68 is a derisive nickname for the only real Communists left in the Communist Party. I'm exactly as old as the October Revolution[…]
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[T]he tankies, those members of the British Communist Party who unquestioningly followed Moscow's line, up to and beyond supporting Soviet tanks rumbling through the streets of Budapest and Prague, […]
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Near-synonym: authcom
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