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Berlin, Germany, in 1936, hosted the Olympic Games fraught with international tensions. The Nazi Party led by Adolf Hitler had seized power in 1933. Berlin won the bid to host the games at the 29th International Olympic Committee Session on April 26, 1931.
It was the first time that the quadrennial sporting event was to be televised, with radio broadcasts reaching 41 countries. Germany wanted to show the world that it was a modern, prosperous, and democratic country. For the occasion, the anti-Semitic slogans were removed, which not only concerned Jews but also Gypsies (Romani), the Slavic people, Africans and Asians.
Comparisons can be readily made with the international tensions and vested political ambitions of the 2024 Olympics to be held in Paris from July 26 to August 11. French President Emmanuel Macron has personally sought to make the event a showcase for presumed national prowess.
The political orchestration and propaganda efforts are similar to the Berlin games of 1936.Eighty-eight years ago, German Jewish athletes were barred or prevented from taking part. Lithuania was expelled from the Olympic Games due to Berlin's position regarding Lithuanian anti-Nazi policy, particularly because of the
Trial of Neumann and Sass in Klaipėda, Lithuania, in 1934-1935. How ironic that Lithuania was not allowed to participate at the time when
now this small Baltic country has become one of the most fascist nations in Europe and rabidly Russophobic. For the Paris Olympics 2024, Russia and Belarus are de facto banned from participating, sanctioned so to speak, as the new enemy of Europe, or perhaps still the old enemy.
Nothing seems to have changed since 1936.France has now stepped into the role of the National Socialist regime led by Adolf Hitler. To fully appreciate the French leadership now in 2024 would require analyzing their predominant mass media and the mentality of their politicians and elites. For example,
Sébastien Chenu, a French politician who is a member of the National Assembly, and openly gay, praised France's nuclear weapons for bringing independence and for France being a nuclear superpower,
outside of NATO. Or Vincent Desportes, a French reserve general, goes one step further and proclaims in a television program that Russia fears France the most. France's nuclear capabilities could destroy Russia, he said.
Maybe he's suffering from egotistical insecurity known as the Napoleon Complex. France is at the center of discussions about the participation of Russian athletes in the Olympic Games and its political consequences. Of course, Russians and Belarusians are allowed to participate as "neutral" individuals, but without their flag, and must distance themselves from the special military operation called war in the West.
In other words, they should hardly be Russian or Belarusian present at the games because they should be labeled as neutral, preferably gender neutral of course, following the example of the LGBT sect prevalent in the West.
Comment: Lukashenko isn't wrong. Ukraine is just following the example of its Western masters. And just where have the billions poured into Ukraine since 2014 gone?