• @TrickDacy
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    213 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
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      211 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 🤷

      • @TrickDacy
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        211 days ago

        Thank you for being the first to actually explain this!

    • Rob Bos
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      113 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.