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They need a certain construction of the world to exist.
The idea that most of us westoid normies are actually not in love with our regimes… Tankie needs us to be bootlcikers for their shill to op to have any meaning.
The world where shit posters don’t LARP US and EU as saints makes the tankie irrelevant from rhetorical perspective.
We know US and west is ruled by pedos who hate poor people. It sucks. Tankies can’t accept that their beloved regime also sucks.
They have bought into the Soviet/Stalinist concept of “socialist realism” where art, literature, and basically all media, have to present life in the Soviet states using only the positives, and either glossing over, or outright denying, the bad parts of reality. While this was initially something imposed upon art, like everything in an authoritarian regime, it spread to everything. Eventually it was just how people knew to act, at least publicly, and it wasn’t really seen as specifically “social realism” any longer, just life under Stalin.
If you want a good example of “socialist realism” literature I suggest checking out Cement. It is arguably the first real piece of “socialist realism”, and the seminal work that everything else was built upon.