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.
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.
Tankiv
