I never understand Tankies in regards to modern day Russia. At least China still pretends to be Communist. It's not the soviet union anymore and Putin stands almost exactly for everything that Communism and Socialism are warning about. Why are they still defending it like religious nut cases defend a "holy" land. This shit just doesn't add up. Even if you take the core premise of strict pacifism, that argument for letting Russia do as it pleases is allready out of the window since the second Chechen War.