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In 1936 the holocaust had not yet started, Hitler hadn't even tuned up the troops in Spain. I think you would have a hard time supporting the idea that a boycott would have been anything but symbolic, at the very best, and would have had no effect whatsoever on the later murder of jews and undesireables. By the time Hitler unleashed the blitzkrieg, the events of the 1936 Olympics were a distant memory.
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Also, if you had told people in 1980 during the Olympics boycott, that in a mere 9 years, the Berlin Wall would fall and communism would begin to crumble throughout the world, how many people would have believed it? |
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Also, ironically, China boycotted the 1980 Olympics because of the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan.
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You are talking in circles. Before you said the decison not to boycott was THIS close, now you suggest we were too ignorant to know better? The boycott would only take place becasue of our knowledge, not to give us knowledge. You don't boycott if you don't knwo what or why you should boycott. I think the best evidence I have read suggests we knew very well what was going on during the war (note, we are talking about 1940 and after, NOT 1936) but did not make stoping the holocaust a priority.
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in 1980 Sino-Soviet relations were not good. China was not as strong as it is now and was very unhappy to see the USSR push into central asia. It was happy to pile on the uSSR every chance it could. Besides, are you now saying that we should emulate an act taken by one of the most repressive regimes in the world?
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Interesting. From the organizer of the boycott.
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