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Zed-turbo-patrioting

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A reference to the Z symbol Russia has adopted in support of its military invasion of Ukraine.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60644832

Those guys who print their "Z" and "V" swastika everywhere.

The letter Z (pronounced like zed by some people) is used as a symbol of support for the war (a lot of Russian vehicles had a Z on them for some reason). Zed-turbo-patrioting is then probably the act of being extremely patriotic and in support of the war

Because Ukraine and Russia operate the same vehicles, friendly fire is an even greater danger than usual. Russia uses 3 different symbols on their vehicles depending which group they're from. Z is for the eastern front as I recall.

Ukraine, for their part, likes to just paint a simple Ukrainian flag.

We don't know exactly what the letters originally meant, but the most likely theory is that Z is for "zapad" meaning "west", and V is for "vostok", meaning "east", and they correspond to the Russian west and east military districts.

As for Ukrainian vehicles, they can be often seen adorned with white crosses in the more recent photos.

But why Latin Z and V and not З и В?

Much easier to draw with a bucket of paint and a brush. Also easier to distinguish at a distance.

A tongue-in-cheek joke in Russia is that these aren't actually Z and V, but rather Ꙁ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze_(Cyrillic)#History_and_shap...) and Ѵ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izhitsa), both a part of the historical early Cyrillic alphabet, symbolizing the return to "tradition".

Thanks for the context, I'm a beginner in Russian and don't know much history of the language.

The "Z" thing confused me for a while. I assumed it expressed support for Ukraine, because it's the first letter of their president's last name [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy

Or, “we’re coming for Z[elensky]”

I believe "Zed" is referring to "Z" as a symbol of the invasion (so the brother in question is a huge booster of Russia's war)

I think there's a not insignificant amount of the Russian population that has been fed, and thoroughly believes, this was something they had to do and Ukraine is full of literal Nazis.

Z is the symbol (and V as well) used by the Russia army as marker on vehicles and has rapidly become a sign similar to Swastika of the Third Reich. It has a fairly interesting and mixed history of origin. The pro-war channels are called Z-channels, frequently using that letter in their name (and sometimes V)

Turbo-patriot is a term very frequently used to describe the people who are super extra patriotic in their support of the Putin and the war being prosecuted

> Z is the symbol (and V as well) used by the Russia army as marker on vehicles and has rapidly become a sign similar to Swastika of the Third Reich

In what sence?

Russians paint "Z" on their combat vehicles

Letter Z

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