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[–] HomerianSymphony -2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I googled and found it was a kind of jacket used in the Red Army.

British people call nerds “anoraks” because of a type of sweater they stereotypically wear. (It comes up a lot in Doctor Who fandom.) I thought “vatnik” was maybe a creative way of calling me a Communist nerd, modelled on anorak.