Different color/type inks fade at different rates. Lol have there be some sort of UV activated dude that changes the sticker weeks after they bought it lol.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      what's the deal with the Z, Russia's been using it? what's the symbol mean

      my guess is it's a nazi N turned over because it's dead

      • mark213686123 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I heard it's something they paint on their tanks to make it clear which tanks are russian and which are Ukrainian and they picked it because it's not a cyrillic letter so it's unlikely that a Ukrainian tank would have it by accident.

        Kind of like how during the English civil war parliamentary forces wore orange sashes so both sides knew not to shoot their own soldiers

      • Shoegazer [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It’s for identification of which units/front the equipment belong to. Chechens don’t use Z but a different letter

        • hes_fired [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Maybe. Seems more likely its zapad i.e. west. Either way, seems weird to use the Latin alphabet for it lol

          • Wertheimer [any]
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            3 years ago

            I dunno, I didn't do it. That's what the Russian Defense Ministry said. Naturally all of the responses to this were mature and non-fascist.

            Oddly for a nationalist symbol, the Z being used is the version from the Latin alphabet. The Russian version, from the Cyrillic alphabet, is more rounded, like a 3.

            After weeks of speculation about what it meant, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that it came from the preposition “Za,” the first word in the Russian phrase “Za pobedu,” or “For victory.”

            That explanation seemed to have provoked a sharp exchange on Monday in the United Nations Security Council, where the Ukrainian ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, said that the “Z” actually stood for “zveri,” which means beasts or animals in Russian. His Russian counterpart, Vasily Nebenzya, shot back that the Russians had their own opinion of who the animals were.

            https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/world/europe/russia-letter-z-ivan-kuliak.html