Sentence:  [W]e also desired to shock the staid older party members and the <WSD>tankies</WSD>. The <WSD>tankies</WSD> and softliners differed as to what sort of magazine "w:Challenge (Communist journal) 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A member of the (Communist Party of Great Britain) who supported the Soviet Union's policy of crushing revolts in Hungary in the 1950s and Czechoslovakia in the 1960s by sending army tanks into these countries.