which sucks because I'm Ukrainian, and my favorite character uses Z as a nickname, but I cant use his merch after 2022 because of the implications :( he came out in 2021😭
"Due to its association with the war in Ukraine, the Z has become a militarist symbol in Russian propaganda and is used by Russian civilians to indicate support for the invasion, further adopted later by Russian far-right organizations"
Don't forget about the International Splined Interface Standard. Or do, I'm not the boss of you. And it's an out of date bicycle component interface standard.
Or Intermediate System to Intermediate System, aka IS-IS, to this day a very widely used routing protocol from the early 90s (it's actually really awesome, just an unfortunate name) :<
I'm so glad there wasn't a Slavic group on the island using the Cyrillic alphabet and calling it, say, Кипр, can you imagine the abomination of a flag they would have designed then?
Whenever I drove through Czechia, I saw many cars with a black "Z" in a red triangle. It made me furious why are there so many supporters of the Russians here. But then I realized, that there must be some other explanation, as Czechs are generally decent people and it's impossible for there to be so many idiots there. I dug a bit and... it turned out that "Z" in a triangle means "Začátečník", a beginner driver xD
(Some of those less decent Czechs, who were not necessarily beginner drivers did however start putting these stickers on their cars post February 2022. For reasons you can probably imagine.)
The only Latin American country surveyed that has a more positive than neutral opinion is Peru; otherwise, the majority of opinions about Russia are negative or neutral.
Besides, I've never seen any openings for mercenaries to fight for Russia in the war, but in Ukraine, several Brazilians, Mexicans, Argentinians, Colombians, and Chileans have already died as mercenaries for Ukraine.
Oh my God, you’re one of these insufferable assholes. Favorability opinions do not represent if people know the meaning of the Z symbol… what do you mean you’ve never seen any openings for Russian mercenaries? They hire all across the world, Colombians Brazilians all over the damn place what are you talking about? Both sides need soldiers so they are willing to pay, it’s not like this is anything new. Don’t act like it’s just one side that’s really dumb because it’s both of them. And there’s really not anything bad about that. A lot of Colombian soldiers need the money and they couldn’t make it back home but Columbia actually recently increased military pay by a lot because they were losing a lot of soldiers who were going to fight for Ukraine or Russia. Obviously more people were going to Ukraine, but don’t act like Russia doesn’t try to recruit people in South America, as well as Africa. I do geolocatons and Ukraine analysis as a hobby, I know my shit more than you thought, spent hours of my life every single day for the entire duration of the war learning as much as I can. I know what I’m talking about.
February 2022 is when Russia invaded Ukraine and the letter Z was used to distinguish vehicles, but it very quickly became a symbol for support of the Russian military
tl;dr "Z" is a Russian military symbol used in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war.
It became a popular symbol in Russia and its military propaganda. Russian supporters use it to show their support of the war.
Because Czechs are mostly supporting Ukraine, the Green Party presumably changed their flag to avoid association with the Russian Z.
Started out as a tactical marking for russian tanks during invasion, because ukraine uses a lot of the same ex-soviet weaponry that russia does, it was a red team blue team thing for ID. in WW2 they did something similar by painting a white cross over the tops of their vehicles so that the allies could tell Soviet vehicles from German ones when bombing convoys. the Americans do something similar but more hi-tech, they put plates over the sides of their vehicles that show up as a different shade/color under IR/Thermal optics. however thats more for different reasons, as in Ukraine, its largely because you could see a T-80, a BTR, a Ural truck, and it could be either russian or ukrainian, 50/50 chance
but quickly became an ultranationalist icon for russian aggression and imperialism. basically a 21st century swastika for russian ultranationalists, imperialists, and fascists.
its prominetly displayed alongside the ribbons of st george, orange and black stripes, who IIRC is supposed to be like a Russian Orthodox patron of soldiers or something, but its just another symbol that got co-opted into justifying horrible things for propaganda
some people refer to it as a Zwastika. it's used in the same way, its a celebration of violence, murder, imperialism, and sometimes just used as a plain old pride/hate symbol "Im proud of what my country does, and I hate you for being against us"
Some countries in Europe have outright banned the displaying of a militarized Z. some have banned displays of the st george ribbon as well as it's used in tthe same context, the letters O and V were also used as ttactical markings, but Z is the one that is predominatley used as a symbol in propaganda because Z has no actual place in the russian alphabet, its not a letter, its a symbol. the Russian "zh" sound is represented by з a symbol that looks like a 3
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HАШ Слава Богу 🙏❤️СЛАВА РОССИИ 🙏❤️АНГЕЛА ХРАНИТЕЛЯ КАЖДОМУ ИЗ ВАС 🙏❤️БОЖЕ ХРАНИ РОССИЮ 🙏❤️СПАСИБО ВАМ НАШИ МАЛЬЧИКИ 🙏🏼❤️🇷🇺 ЧТО ПОДДЕРЖИМ НАШИХ СРАЗУ видно НАШ СЛОНЯРА🇷🇺🇷🇺💪 СВО слава тебе Господи🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺💪🔥🔥 СВО да хранит ТЕБЯ ГОСПОДЬ🔥💪💪🇷🇺 НАШ живчик СРАЗУ видно НАШИХ парней издалека🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺💪💪💪💪💪 СВОих не бросаем🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺💪💪Слава Богу СВО🙏❤️СЛАВА СВО🙏❤️АНГЕЛА ХРАНИТЕЛЯ СВО КАЖДОМУ ИЗ ВАС🙏❤️БОЖЕ ХРАНИ СВО🙏❤️СПАСИБО ВАМ НАШИ СВО🙏🏼❤️🇷🇺 ХРОНИ СВО✊🇷🇺💯СПАСИБО ВАМ НАШИ МАЛЬЧИКИ 🙏🏼❤️🇷🇺 ЧТО ПОДДЕРЖИВАЕТЕ СВО
In February 2022, I bought a t-shirt from merch made by the city hall of the quarter where I live. It was a big white Ž (the first letter in the name of the quarter). Two fucking days later, the Russians invaded Ukraine.
I wore it only once since then and spend the whole time explaining to others it has nothing to do with the Z Russians used.
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u/Koino_ United Nations Honor Flag (Four Freedoms Flag)23d ago
its not just the use of it by the military, but that the civilian population turned it into a symbol of glorification , celebration, and support of the invasion. they turned it into a hate symbol.
It was changed to maintain consistency with logo, which was changed year earlier for the sake of recognition, and has zero to do with what all commenters here are saying
I'd hazard a guess that the reasons are known: the letter Z is used by Russians who support the Russo-Ukrainian War. The Czech Greens didn't want to be tainted by association (even though I suspect the word “green” might begin with a Z in Czech)
What's the most irrelevant question you've been asked this year so far? I just found mine. We already have a perfectly fine language, why bother with any of that?
See this gotta be bait but you are an American teenager so I can’t be too sure.
This isn’t a political party from an English speaking country, it’s a Czech political party. I know it may be hard to imagine but in the Czech Republic they speak Czech.
The word for green in Czech starts with Z.
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u/Comprehensive_Tea577 24d ago
The new flag: