By K Raveendran The ‘Z’ marking seen on Russian battle tanks and other military equipment as a coding for the Ukraine invasion is fast acquiring an evil meaning, similar to the evil that the Nazi symbol of Swastika denotes. In India, Swastika connotes exactly the opposite, as the Hindu symbol of auspiciousness. But for most parts of the world, Swastika stands for all that was horrifying about Nazism. Western media is increasingly using the images of ‘Z’ from visuals coming out of Ukraine as replacement for the English alphabet, in write-ups that bracket Putin with Stalin, such as Putin’s Stalinization...
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