• poputchik
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    3 years ago

    Interesting article.

    Here’s something from the same magazine:

    For Adolf Hitler in 1936, The Games were a chance to make the Nazi regime seem reasonable and distract from his oppression of German Jews. For Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the Olympics represent an opportunity to turn the world’s attention away from what the United States government and human rights groups have said is his genocidal persecution of China’s largely-Muslim Uyghur minority.

    https://forward.com/opinion/482034/the-beijing-olympics-looks-a-lot-like-nazi-germany/