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Putin, Hitler and the Olympics1936: Hitler hosts the Winter Olympics in Bavaria and then the Summer Olympics in Berlin.
2014: Putin hosts the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
1938: Hitler’s Annexation of the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia.
2014: Putin’s Intervention into the Crimea, Ukraine.
1939: World War Two begins.
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I could not agree more. This need however may not stop the West from letting the Ukrainians do what the West should have done a long time ago - breaking Putin's neck.
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"There has been very little animosity directed towards Ahn since his nationality switch."
"A poll conducted by Gallup Korea on 1,215 adults last November found 61 percent understood Ahn's decision to become a naturalized Russian. "Given his situation, the decision to give up the citizenship of his mother country sounds like an unavoidable choice..." wrote 27-year-old Internet poster Will Kim.""
"...the KSU had "alienated an athlete whose athletic ability is rarely seen even in a span of 100 years.""
Says Viktor Ahn himself,
"I wanted to train in the best possible environment and I proved my decision was not wrong".Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/16/us-olympics-shorttrack-ahn-korea-idUSBREA1F09920140216... )
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Very much so but whatever the intentions, he advanced the devil's cause.
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And if we're to start speaking of inhumanity, I wouldn't call some other presumably "civilized" countries that humane, either. But those've been regularly awarded various events too.
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