Vatnik
Vatnik is a political pejorative[1][2] that is used in Russia and other post-Soviet states for the steadfast jingoistic followers of propaganda from the Russian government.[3]
The word started as an Internet meme created by Anton Chadskiy on VKontakte in 2011, and later used in Russia and in other post-Soviet states. Russia and other former Soviet countries. The meme shows a character made from a padded cotton wool jacket (vatnik in Russian) with a black eye. It is used to mock someone as overly patriotic and not very smart, who blindly follows the ideas shown in Russian government media and by online groups.[4][5]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Fialkova, Larisa; Yelenevskaia, Maria (2016-04-14). "The Crisis in Ukraine and the Split of Identity in the Russian-speaking World". Folklorica. 19. doi:10.17161/folklorica.v19i1.5721. ISSN 1920-0242. Archived from the original on 2020-06-26. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ↑ Devlin, Anne Marie (2016-11-25). "Lard-eaters, gay-ropeans, sheeple and prepositions: lexical and syntactic devices employed to position the other in Russian online political forums". Russian Journal of Communication. 9 (1): 53–70. doi:10.1080/19409419.2016.1219642. ISSN 1940-9419.
{{cite journal}}:|hdl-access=requires|hdl=(help) - ↑ Jim Kovpak (March 2015). "Why the West can't Understand Russia". Russia! magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-02-04.
- ↑ Shaun Walker (2 June 2016). "Ukraine bans Russian journalists accused of 'stirring hatred'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
- ↑ Kolya Camouflage (27 May 2015). ""Tesak's daughter" moved to Ukraine to organize "safari" hunting on gay people". upogau.org. Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2017.