• Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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    14 days ago

    They tag some of their military assets with ‘Z’ for battlefield identification

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      Because the Russians liked the movie world war z or what? Also I’m still confused why people on Lemmy would adopt that spelling regardless

      • SassyRamen@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        Z was being used in ruZZia as a symbol to show support for the invasion. IIRC Z was used by a certain command in that area on tanks and trucks.

        People started spelling “Russia” as “ruZZia” to relate it to the Nazi SS and using Z to do so to show distane for the war. I write it with lower case r out of disrespect 🤷

      • Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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        14 days ago

        They needed a symbol to spray paint on their tanks to easily differentiate them. Z is simple and it’s not a a Cyrillic letter.