Putin, Hitler and the Olympics

[leonidstorch]

Originally posted by leonidstorch at Putin, Hitler and the Olympics
1936: 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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Comments

[cypukambl]

Putin is not just tolerated. He is encouraged by the West to do everything he wants. There`s a simple way to stop him: arrest his assets in western banks and confiscate his real estate in Western countries. Has the West done anything of that kind? No. Why? Because the West for some reason needs Putin in Russia and temporarily lets him play his dangerous games. That means that Ukraine is doomed and neither USA nor EU will help it

[leonidstorch]

/Beating Russian army is a piece of cake. So why doesn`t the West give Tsar Vladimir what he deservers? The answer is simple: the West now needs Putin. /

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.

[luzribeiro]

Godwin applauds.

[existentme]

Lol.

[htpcl]

"South Korean sports pages and news sites lauded [Viktor] Ahn and lambasted the KSU on Sunday."
"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... )

[anfalicious]

Half of our Olympic team usually has accents not from here :P

[leonidstorch]

/Seems like Vic Ahn's decision has little to do with Russia, Putin, Hitler or anything of the sort/

Very much so but whatever the intentions, he advanced the devil's cause.

[htpcl]

At least he didn't go to North Korea. :-O

[ddstory]

Let me see if I'm getting this right. The International Olympic Committee has encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine. Is that it?

[anfalicious]

[leonidstorch]

No. But It awarded the Olympics to a lawful, inhumane regime, which was a shameful thing to do.

[ddstory]

That's not how your use of the Hitler reference comes across. Your reference translates as "there's a World War 3 coming up because the IOC encouraged Putin".

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.

[olegborisov]

you're funny