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by daib0 » Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:46 pm
That awkward moment when Boris Johnson is reminded Russia (USSR) boycotted Hitler's Olympics, but Great Britain didn't. And the England football team were ordered by the then Tory government to give the Nazi salute in Germany in 1938.
Russia won't be as exagerrated ... but how might the political politics play out? Thoughts?
(many thanks to the Blackpool BHS forum for producing this pic)
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by Gibbon » Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:55 pm
Of course the picture should be viewed bearing in mind that back then the nazi salute didn’t hold the historical weight that it does now.
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by mrblackbat » Wed Mar 28, 2018 1:38 pm
Much like the Charlie Chaplin 'tache was a much beloved piece of facial wear, and nobody saw anything wrong with the Sanskrit swastika, which roughly translates to conducive to wellbeing.
