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"Z" is a military symbol that the Russian military has been painting on vehicles in Ukraine. It's become a pro-war symbol for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
To expand, it's essentially the Russian version of the German iron cross in ww2, and has very similar connotations.
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
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.
I heard Zorro will be suing any day now.
That would be why I specified in ww2. The connotation is very different now.