Sport has always been an important part of the international image of any state, a means of “soft power”. And for totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, it has turned into a weapon of propaganda of their own ideology. For example, the 1934 World Cup and the 1936 Olympic Games played an important role in the propaganda of Italian fascists and German Nazis. Hitler and Mussolini wanted not only to organize and hold these sporting events in an exemplary manner, but also to show the world the winning results and “superiority” of their nations and political regimes over their competitors.
The Soviet Union, which used sports to promote communist ideology and fight against the “capitalist bloc” during the Cold War, was not far behind them. The apogee of this confrontation was the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, which were boycotted by 65 states in protest against the Soviet aggression in Afghanistan.
The Russian Federation continues to follow this path. Having created the so-called “Russian Student Sports Union”, it launched its tentacles on all the Ukrainian territories it managed to annex. Therefore, the other day in Donetsk region, such a “union” was presented, which will unite young people around itself and brainwash them with its propaganda of greatness and power. As they say, all methods are acceptable.
We will remind that the invaders are planning to bring tourers from the Russian Federation to the TOT from the summer, who will organize cells of the federal service for supervision in the field of education. Another tool at the service of Kremlin propaganda.
In the meantime, each of us can prevent this deadly machine by reporting the actions of collaborators and invaders in the TOT via this link.
