[Apparatchik]

Our FRiends here are a LOT more savvy than you knuckledraggers give them credit for. Many know how to use a search engine to educate themselves, rather than just screeching about “danged furriners” (which I am not). But since you had the courage to proclaim your ignorance, here you go:

Vatnik (Russian: ватник, pronounced [ˈvatʲnʲɪk]) 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 Chadskiy on VKontakte in 2011, and later used in Russia, Ukraine, 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 (vatnik in Russian) 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.

Happy to help explain any of the words above you might have had trouble with.

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>>>>Our FRiends here are a LOT more savvy than you knuckledraggers give them credit for. Many know how to use a search engine to educate themselves, rather than just screeching about “danged furriners” (which I am not). But since you had the courage to proclaim your ignorance, here you go<<<<

Some may have the desire to look up UKE/Russian words or phrases, I do not.

I leave that up to foreign flunkies like you.