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Rebel comrades: How Russian imperial nostalgia found its Confederate soul – Russia’s Kremlin loyalists and America’s MAGA faithful have a lot in common — and they’re both enslaved by the past
(Salon) – here’s something fitting about the term “vatnik” — derogatory Russian slang for pro-Kremlin loyalists — because whether by accident or design, it translates eerily well to a concept from another place and time: the “cotton rebel.”
You see, vatnik originally referred to a quilted cotton jacket, the kind worn by Soviet workers, soldiers and prisoners alike. But over time, it came to symbolize a particular kind of person: the diehard, unthinking supporter of an authoritarian regime. The one who cheers for repression, worships the state and believes everything their TV tells them.
And in a twist of historical irony, the word cotton — or, more precisely, cotton rebels — was once used to mock the Confederate South in the United States. The Southern economy was built on cotton, of course — and on the labor of enslaved human beings — and the Confederates were convinced that their entire way of life was not only righteous but essential to the world. They believed they were feeding and clothing America, that they were the economic backbone of civilization, and… (Actually That WAS and IS factually correct! – DD)
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