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"Tankie" is a pejorative used to refer to defenders of actions taken by the USSR and other 20th century communist governments. In it most narrow meaning it refers to western communists who supported the Soviet use of tanks to crush the 1956 Hungarian uprising. More broadly, it is used to refer to Marxist-Leninists.
Noun
Tankie (plural: Tankies)
Etymology
Tank + ie