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Forest of trees (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

In that case the term Tankie could not be applied to China as the original meaning of the word Tankies could only apply to the Soviet Union.

What I have always understood to be the implication is "people justifying and usually denying war crimes from a government or group which aligns with their political ideology".

Most often those people do not care about the war crimes. They think a government and/or government ideology is awesome and therefore will excuse any war crimes because it is for the greater good/lesser evil.