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zikzak025@lemmy.world 8 hours agoYeah but closer to the eastern bloc you’re likely to hear the term “vatnik” used instead.
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zikzak025@lemmy.world 8 hours agoYeah but closer to the eastern bloc you’re likely to hear the term “vatnik” used instead.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
Tankies and vatniks have a lot of overlap.
From my understanding, a vatnik is specifically someone who is shilling for the russian government. Not necessarily under a veneer of leftism (because the kremlin is far-right-wing).
A tankie may or may not be directly shilling for the kremlin, but it’s always an auth-comm under a guise of leftism.
Tankie vatniks exist of course, but they’re just the center of the venn diagram.