Garry Kasparov

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Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

I wrote about sportswashing and why dictators love sporting spectacles before the Sochi Games & Russian World Cup, both shameful normalization of a hostile police state. As the USSR exploited sport, chess and its champions, until I refused to play under the Soviet flag in 1990. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 28, 2023

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National sports teams & players are exploited by the regime for propaganda. There is no “neutrality,” as the IOC pretends. If a Russian condemns the war and disavows Putin’s illegal dictatorship, ok. Otherwise, it’s a platform for a genocidal terror state. https://t.co/RBQwsRidUr — PolitiTweet.org

The efforts of the IOC to sweep Russian war crimes under the rug is a testament to how far the Olympic gods have be… https://t.co/yY3EYnOD3c

Posted Jan. 28, 2023

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Berlin 1936 is the touchstone, as Hitler and the Nazis used the Games to great propaganda effect. I sure they would have loved to send teams to Tokyo or Finland for the 1940 Games had they not been cancelled. Isolation is strategically vital on every front. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 28, 2023