"petrakaur 19m @hmmiamnotsure Because you’re acting as though they’re making a claim about tankies actually supporting Israel and not their actual argument which is that both Zionists and tankies are atrocity defending campists.

For example you can see tankies defending and denying the genocidal deportations of Crimean Tatars, Karachay, Kalmyks, Chechen and Ingush under Stalin (defenders include popular tankie historian Grover Furr, Bill Bland of the CLGB). More broadly than just genocide you can see tankies defending the mass incarceration of Uighur Muslims under the charge of ‘extremism’, restrictions on freedom of expression and independent unions in China or the USSR that they would condemn as fascist if done in any capitalist country, support for dictators by China and the USSR (e.g. the USSR supported Ethiopian Marxist Leninist dictator Mengistu who carried out a genocide against minority ethnicities especially in the Tigray region, China today is providing support for the Myanmar Junta which participates in the genocide of Rohingya Muslims).

One final example. During the cold war a lot of the time when there is popular grassroots opposition to a US backed government the people will be called communists and dismissed as Moscow backed. This is the anti-communists’ way of denying the agency of ordinary people.

Likewise when there was unrest against Soviet backed governments (e.g. Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Poland in the 1980s, Eastern Bloc as a whole 1989-1991) the communists will do the reverse, they will call the people a color revolution and dismiss them as CIA backed. This is their way of denying the agency of the common people (and Western communist parties defended the USSR invading Hungary and Czechoslovakia to crush these movements!)."

Does anyone smell paternalism in the vicinity? Also no sources lol.