It was actually the Hungarian counter-revolution of 1956, not the Czech counter-revolution of '68. The '56 counter-revolt was legitimately a fascist revolt, led by nationalists that let Nazis out of prisons and sent them towards Jewish people and communist officials, lynching them and marking their doors. The Triumph of Evil goes over that, IIRC, plus the Hungarian nationalists were trained and backed by the CIA and MI6:
As for Prague Spring, it was also a CIA-backed counter-revolt. Sam Marcy writes about this in Czechoslovakia in 1968: The Class Character of the Events, Dubcek wanted to pivot to the IMF and world bank, establish full capitalism, and sell out the working class.
These were necessary interventions in the grand scheme of things, and were deliberately provoked by the west, the CIA and MI6 especially. It was not about “escaping the Russian boot,” and for someone accusing communists of rewriting history it’s odd that you even got the timeline of the origin of the term “tankies” wrong, let alone your interpretation of events.
It was actually the Hungarian counter-revolution of 1956, not the Czech counter-revolution of '68. The '56 counter-revolt was legitimately a fascist revolt, led by nationalists that let Nazis out of prisons and sent them towards Jewish people and communist officials, lynching them and marking their doors. The Triumph of Evil goes over that, IIRC, plus the Hungarian nationalists were trained and backed by the CIA and MI6:
As for Prague Spring, it was also a CIA-backed counter-revolt. Sam Marcy writes about this in Czechoslovakia in 1968: The Class Character of the Events, Dubcek wanted to pivot to the IMF and world bank, establish full capitalism, and sell out the working class.
These were necessary interventions in the grand scheme of things, and were deliberately provoked by the west, the CIA and MI6 especially. It was not about “escaping the Russian boot,” and for someone accusing communists of rewriting history it’s odd that you even got the timeline of the origin of the term “tankies” wrong, let alone your interpretation of events.