I've noticed something with tankies that I've also noticed with those on the real fringes of the far-right. The way they talk about history is very similar. They both reject conventional historiography, sometimes pointing to how we're given simplified narratives for issues that are far more complex. The only problem is, they take this as a form of deliberate deception, and then assume those they were told were the good guys are bad, and vice versa. Tankies do this with the Cold War (see Grover Furr,), and neo-Fascists do it with WWII (David Irving).