From Die Welt, via
Der Spiegel:
"The Olympic flame is intended to demonstrate peace and solidarity among the peoples. In ancient times lighting the torch marked the period during which weapons were put down during the Games and acts of war were forbidden. The fact that it was the Nazis who reintroduced it in 1936 shows how susceptible such a symbolic act is to propaganda. China's dictatorship can't be compared with Hitler's regime. But one has to welcome the fact that demonstrators are now preventing the Communists in Beijing from using the torch relay to present themselves like Leni Riefenstahl did, with terrifying mastery, in her propaganda film 'Olympia.' The torch relay was intended as a triumph but has become a gauntlet for the Chinese -- and given their stubborn attitude in the Tibetan conflict, they only have themselves to blame."
That's right, you can't compare Hitler and China. Hitler's socialism killed "only" 6 million, while communism in China has killed around 50 million.
It was funny, though, watching all this Olympic nonsense the other day. For some reason, I thought about "Olympia" and "Triumph of the Will." There definitely is a similarity. Anyone who is familiar with propaganda gets the correlation.
Never underestimate the corrupting influence of Marxism and socialism...it pollutes everything, no matter how sacred.
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