(Yeah, I was confused too - I think they are referring to westerns/western political agents/some Hungarian fractions with western views (?) directly as “nazis”, not actual German nazis. That’s also the terminology USSR used at the time (50s). The word “Tankie” was first used in UK for UK communists/members of Britain’s communist party. From: wiki/Tankie, wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956)
(Yeah, I was confused too - I think they are referring to westerns/western political agents/some Hungarian fractions with western views (?) directly as “nazis”, not actual German nazis. That’s also the terminology USSR used at the time (50s). The word “Tankie” was first used in UK for UK communists/members of Britain’s communist party. From: wiki/Tankie, wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956)