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Thank you!! :) luckily the stakes are quite low!

K I gotta bow out of this one, we're getting into territory and history on which I am not educated or confident enough in my knowledge to discuss, also it's a very controversial topic I don't want to discuss on a public forum with people who don't know me.

Sorry, I acknowledge that I asked a bunch of questions you are just answering lol. My fault!

Cheers, hope you have a lovely evening!

So does that mean the Hungarian revolution was engineered by the CIA? Like by the US government? I think that was suspected for a long time, but also that justifying the tankie view ignores a lot of nuance imo. Does "america bad" really justify the use of tanks? Was the Hungarian revolution really fascist even if some of the leadership was? Or was it simply an anti-authoritarian struggle for freedom and self-determination?

Idk, I'm lacking in a lot of historical knowledge.

Great work! And cute lil soot sprite up there

Definitely what ComfortableRaspberry said, get a kit (this one was a kit and took me a couple weeks just doing it in my free time) and take your time! Enjoy it, and with all first attempts, don't be afraid to suck!

Thank you! :)

This one is actually embroidery! Similar but more organic i think, i haven't tried cross-stitch yet! Don't know which is more difficult though

Thank you!! :)

I did lose a couple stitches but overall it went very well! I haven't worked with anything else so I didn't know that this was a common thing with black fabric, interesting!

This makes sense.

I do think "tankie" is the wrong word, as "bootlicker" sounds more apt since Russia hasn't been communist since '91.

As in, these devs are definitely authoritarian, but communist? Absolutely not.

Good to know, I totally thought it was a pejorative term for people who supported Kruschev's use of tanks, and I rarely see people talking about that so I was very confused.

Note: this comment is dripping with sarcasm

At this point I'm not sure if they are tankies, or whether they've just been called tankies by people who call all leftists tankies.