homosexuals were persecuted, yes that's oppression
If you are a Communist, you don't need to defend every aspect of every Communist state (yeah oxymoron, w/e), it's okay to say "they did some things wrong"
If you aren't defending, excusing, or justifying the oppression of people by the USSR or PRC, then I'm not talking about you; you were not the type of person which "tankie" is typically used to describe
Much of it was built on colonialism and neocolonialism, with the richness of the West built on uneven exchange with everyone else, a system set up at gunpoint. None of this is described as authoritarian
okay well I'm glad China has sorted out trans issues in their country then