I don’t know what you want me to say, .ml was created by tankies. It was once the largest Lemmy community so it drew a ton of new people which for a while drowned out the tankie rhetoric. Then the mods started to be little more mask off with their leanings, which caused an exodus of users to other instances, leaving behind a collection of tankies, true believers, people who had never heard criticism of the West or socialist ideals before so thought they were learning secret knowledge, and those too apathetic to bother changing instances. When they started getting defederated, even those last two groups started to leave.