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[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 child) Yeah but closer to the eastern bloc you're likely to hear the term "vatnik" used instead. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent
