There are lots of comments on that thread trying to divert the issue by pointing out the violence done by the western countries
Yeah, I know - me (and all the other leftists) were dealing with tankies long before these libs even knew what the term tankie meant.
A liberal showing up and pretending that the west (supposedly) puts “attention on those misdeeds to ensure future generations don’t repeat the mistakes” is an utterly fallacious piece of propaganda that any leftist is going to debunk hard no matter what is being discussed. All they actually achieved is to give the tankies a justification to divert the issue.
I have no idea why libs think they are politically competent enough to argue with tankies - they aren’t even competent enough to deal with their alt-right cousins.