Garry Kasparov

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Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

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

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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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Russians could sign a public pledge as described, essentially defecting from Putin’s terror state in order to play abroad. Such defections can have an impact in the population and weaken the regime’s global propaganda platform. Again, there is no neutrality, no “just sports”. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 28, 2023