Russian Tattoo - NON CRIMINAL

[0o_higanbana_o0]

Hello, yes, me again ^^

I'd like to thank all the kind helpers, I have learned so many things thanks to my previous post. Stay awesome, LD community.

I hit another snag in my story, but I'm afraid this one will be a lot harder to answer.
I'm still giving it a try, tho.

So. In canon, the Russian man working for the KGB in the early 1960s has a

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[francis_drake]

The actor's tattoo doesn't make any sense in Russian. Russian word for hammer is “молот” (molot) or “молоток” (molotok), and nothing like it is written on the tattoo. The last two symbols read as a capital R (the glyph for that is Р in Russian) and a small kh (for which the glyph is x). The things to the left don't read as letters, and the closest to letters would be two sh's in a row (for which the glyph is Ш). That makes “ШШРх” or shshrkh, which isn't even remotely a Russian word.

Now, I haven't done any reading on the matter, but, coming from the Russian culture, I'd say a tattoo unrelated to prison culture, and especially on a government agent, seems to me bloody unlikely.

[reapermum]

Given that the actor has family connectios to Russia, I would doubt that it's meaningless. But it may have person meaning, such as family initials.

[0o_higanbana_o0]

Thanks for your input!

[0o_higanbana_o0]

Thank you SO much for your contribution.
I seems highly unlikely to me too, so I'll either have to come up with a realistic way to explain it (and so far, I'm stuck. As a government agent, he's not going to have KGB related blason tattooed on himself, that would be some obfuscating level of stupidity. The character is supposed to have gotten in the KGB real young and became one of their top assets really fast, so I can't squeeze a prison stay in there. SMH), or just, write if off as not really existing.
HRRRNNN.

[francis_drake]

On account of military tattoos, there was an urban legend that goes more or less like this

[0o_higanbana_o0]

OOOOH, THank you SO, SO MUCH.
I love this community, I always learn SO MANY THINGS.
THis is awesome. Really, I can't thank you enough for this little story.