http://georgiandaily.com/index.php?o...6184&Itemid=65
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During the Soviet era, the West did not seriously confront the Soviet Union when it violated the Olympic spirit: Hungary was invaded on the eve of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. The Mexico City Games in October 1968 were somewhat overshadowed by Soviet tanks rolling into Prague that August; Afghanistan was overrun even as Moscow was preparing to host its own Olympics in 1980. The Soviet Union was settling scores inside its sphere of influence, and for the West that was that...
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Just wandering: did Georgia learn this terrible trick from its mighty neighbour or history repeats itself?
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When Russian tanks entered Georgia just as the Beijing Olympics were getting under way, I asked the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, about this Kremlin tradition...
Mr. Churkin said, indicating — incredibly — that the events in South Ossetia had taken Moscow by surprise and that no premeditation was involved.
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Was premeditation involved or not?
08-18-2008, 11:04 PM
Olympic games and Wars
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