vatnik
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thumb|upright=1.2|Activists in Ukraine using the image of "Vatnik" in the action of "[[Boycott Russian Films" campaign (2015)]] Vatnik (, ) is a political pejorative used in Russia and other post-Soviet states for steadfast jingoistic followers of propaganda from the Russian government.
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It is catalogued under topics including 2011 neologisms, Anti-Russian sentiment and Internet memes introduced from Russia.
Its subject is documented across 17 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- ethnophaulism
- Named after
- telogreika
- Image
- Vatnik performance.jpg
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- start time
- 2011-00-00
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- Etymology
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- Reappropriation
- Variations
- Analysis
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- References
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thumb|upright=1.2|Activists in Ukraine using the image of "Vatnik" in the action of "[[Boycott Russian Films" campaign (2015)]] Vatnik (, ) is a political pejorative used in Russia and other post-Soviet states for steadfast jingoistic followers of propaganda from the Russian government.
The use of the word originates from an Internet meme first spread by Anton Chadsky on VKontakte in 2011, and later used in Russia, Ukraine, and then in other post-Soviet states. Its meaning refers to the original cartoon, which depicts a character made from the material of a padded cotton wool (, ) jacket () and bearing a black eye, which is used to disparage someone as a blindly patriotic and unintelligent jingoist who pushes the conventional views presented in Russian government media as well as those of Russian web brigades. The name "Vatnik" derives from the cotton wool jacket (Telogreika) that Chadsky's cartoon character in the meme is made from.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “vatnik” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.