If you ask tankies they’ll just tell you your friends were bourgeoisie and deserved to be put in camps for not being socialist enough…
For nuance’s sake - there are still older generation folk that are vehemently pro-russia but they usually don’t espouse socialist values but more nationalistic, Russian imperial interests and general anti-progressiveness as a supposed counter to US influence.
From what I’ve gathered it boils down to yearning for a simpler past when food was local and better, mixed with some nostalgia for their youth, as well as a healthy dose of convenient memory loss of the surveillance state and atrocities of the regime.
If you ask tankies they’ll just tell you your friends were bourgeoisie and deserved to be put in camps for not being socialist enough…
For nuance’s sake - there are still older generation folk that are vehemently pro-russia but they usually don’t espouse socialist values but more nationalistic, Russian imperial interests and general anti-progressiveness as a supposed counter to US influence.
From what I’ve gathered it boils down to yearning for a simpler past when food was local and better, mixed with some nostalgia for their youth, as well as a healthy dose of convenient memory loss of the surveillance state and atrocities of the regime.