The Taistoists were an interior opposition group in the Communist Party of Finland.
The term taistolaisuus was a derogatory nickname invented by Helsingin Sanomat and was never used by the group themselves.
[2] In colloquial Finnish, taistolainen is the same as Tankie in English.
Although the Taistoists were sometimes identified as "Stalinists", this was not a central part of their orthodoxy.
[citation needed] Some of the former Taistoists later joined the Left Alliance or have since abandoned Communism altogether.