• hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    I mean. They invented the Olympic torch relay and overall showed their competence in Propaganda. You can sell literally anything if you do it right.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics

    The Games were the first to be televised, with radio broadcasts reaching 41 countries.[2] Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl was commissioned by the German Olympic Committee to film the Games for $7 million.[2] Her film, titled Olympia, pioneered many of the techniques now common in the filming of sports.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, the 1936 was a huge and famously pretty successful propaganda event for Nazi Germany. It might have served as an inspiration for certain other authoritarian regimes.

      At least the Chinese and the Russians didn’t upset American sensitivities! Good for them. <3