Just learned about this word and I’m mildly annoyed it’s only one letter away from being an anagram of tankie.
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Vatnik is basically a cotton blanket cut in a shape of jacket. The cheapest kind of winter outerwear, and very recognizable as Soviet uniform from the old war films.
I’d like to further expand on this, I advocate for the use of Britnik whenever dealing with British nationalists trolls online.
I already saw refusenik in israeli context. So, I guess, this word can adapt to any situation. Just like russian apparatchik (a part of a government appartus) I was surprised to see in the old-ass Hunt for the Red October by Tom Clancy.
Doesn’t the lack a pejorative for someone who follows western propaganda somewhat speak to the propagandistic aspect of this term as well as the whole “tankie” fad?
Wouldn’t those be Lib, Fed, and pig with all its derivitives?
What do you call non-western propaganda anyway? Eastern propaganda just doesn’t sound right even though it would be the most logical.
I guess we could call them tankivs going forward. It would be kinda fitting.
They are not exactly the same, but do have a significant overlap. An interesting find, never thought of that.
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