Absolving Z

[dukealien]

Had not heard that Putin had chosen Z as some kind of emblem.  Or it was chosen for him I guess. Anyway line makes perfect and witty sense with that knowledge.  I grew up with the letter Z being a cultural symbol of quite a different guy, from the Costa-Gavras film in '69.  Different time zone 

Know the film, saw it when it first came out (the monochrome still frames as "power went out").  Dictatorship gets into everything, like a spice or a virus.