Oh no, these guys are really old fashioned Marxist-Leninists and at some point they even admitted to being Stalinists.

They’re not the thinking kind of Lefties who might just be against war out of principle, they’re just heavily indoctrinated types in a very specific prepackaged ideology that claims to be Leftwing - basically they’re "Left"wing MAGAs.

The tankie stereotype is in fact real - rare, but real.