cf https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tankie#Noun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tankie#Noun > A supporter of policies and actions by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba

cf https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tankie#Noun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tankie#Noun > A supporter of policies and actions by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other authoritarian socialist governments. But the meaning seems to have drifted to (Western) supporters of the current Russian regime.