Tankies are Napolean, Squealer, and the young pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm.
The pigs' actions and development throughout the story serve as an allegory for the rise of totalitarianism and the corruption of revolutionary ideals. They gradually abandon the principles of <insertLeftistBuzzwordHere>
-ism (in Animal Farm, it was called 'Animalism'), ultimately becoming as cruel and self-serving as the human farmers they initially ousted.
I always hated this prick; I'm not happy about the way my contempt is now justified.
I just thought his band sucked ass. Like, pathetically awful. I never knew he was a cult leader of some sort.
But it tracks, unfortunately