No you don't understand, they need to be able to defend their territory from capitalist encirclement tankie encircelement, they have been forced into "authoritarian" behavior as a defense against hostile neighbors, these are completely unique circumstances with no historical parallels whatsoever.
By the way your comments are hidden on their instance so they can't see it. I think it's pretty silly they're using software made by tankies by they don't want tankies interacting with their community. Reminds me of real life.
I love how tankie comes before nazi in terms of laying out the rules. You guys ever just think that people who believe horseshoe theory forced its legitimacy by inventing a tankie boogieman that supposedly sits opposites the nazis? I do.