“People think, increasingly it appears, that we shouldn’t be doing this. Well, let me start by saying we haven’t lost a single American in this war,” McConnell said. “Most of the money that we spend related to Ukraine is actually spent in the US, replenishing weapons, more modern weapons. So it’s actually employing people here and improving our own military for what may lie ahead.”

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I thought 'tankie' came from a video game. Turns out it's been around since the USSR decided to roll into Hungary.

[–] MultigrainCerealista@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The Hungarian uprising was killing Jews in the street. It was anti-Semitic from the beginning and the “Jewish Bolshevik” idea from the Nazi era was a motivating factor with the fact several leaders of the Hungarian government were Jewish cited as a battle cry.

https://www.jta.org/2006/10/25/lifestyle/1956-crises-decimated-two-communities

After the uprising, 200,000 Hungarian Jews fled the country fearing it signaled a return of the antisemitism of the recent Nazi-collaborationist regime of the 1940s.

Sending the tanks in to stop this was a good thing. It would have been better if the anti-Semitic uprising was stopped before the pogroms started.

[–] Zoboomafoo@yiffit.net -4 points 1 year ago

Ok tankie

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup. Thankfully they were able to crush the revolt before the fascists were able to re-establish the Arrow Cross Party.

[–] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

oh shit hexbearites are talking about hungary again, gotta ditch the thread lmao

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Órban still has fond memories of that...he was 7 in 1956, he probably remembers.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

Which is funny, since crushing the revolt was the only reason it took people like Orban so long to regain power.