Apr 21, 2008
People's Olympiad
In protest against the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which the Nazis used for all its worth to promote their views on Aryan race supremacy and the glory of the Third Reich, alternative olympic games were planned for July 19 to 26 in Barcelona, Spain. Ironically, just as the games were about to begin, another fascist, Franco, made a grab for power. Tough luck, there.
Maybe we should stage a People’s Olympiad in Zimbabwe to protest against the Beijing Olympics — you know, to honor the old tradition of pitting one dictatorship against another, in the Olympic spirit?
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