A video appeared from Kazakhstan. Local residents made a person cover a Z symbol on his car with paint.

He tried to justify himself that his last name, Zinovyev, starts with a Z, and apologized for his actions.

https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en/27934

  • Skua@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure that analogy really holds. The iron cross had been part of German military iconography since before Germany was even a united country, whereas this Z thing appears to have popped up specifically for the current Russian invasion

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      1 year ago

      The connotations of the iron cross during ww2 and the Russian Z now are very much similar.

      Nowhere did I claim the connotation of the iron cross outside of ww2 carried the same connotation, because it very clearly doesn’t.