The XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, which have become a triumph of Russian sports, have just ended - our team showed excellent preparation and will to win, taking the first team place in both gold and total number of Olympic medals.
No less high "team spirit" was shown by the country, which in several years managed to build sports facilities of such a scale that others would have spent decades on. But what they said and wrote in the world press, predicting the collapse of the Sochi Olympics! As they say in Odessa, you can't wait.
It's no secret: every event on a global scale has its own political component. We are talking about this today with a public figure and publicist A.V. Shchipkov.
- Alexander Vladimirovich, how do you like the Olympics?
- This is undoubtedly one of the largest social, sports, cultural and political events of our time. This event is sporting by definition, social significance lies in attracting the attention of the media, the cultural component is the opening and closing of the Olympics, discussed in terms of aesthetics, form, presentation, etc. But the main, of course, is the political component. The Olympics, first of all, are the most important political action.
The fact is that the Olympics were a kind of presentation of Russia to the world. Holding the Olympics on its territory, any state gets a huge PR. Only the opening and closing of the Olympics are watched by about three billion people. At least one billion of them will learn for the first time that such a country exists at all. In some distant countries, it is possible that people generally have a vague idea of Russia, but here they will be able to hear something, see something, etc. But to those who know about Russia very well, we remind ourselves once again that it is not at all superfluous.
- On the one hand, this seems to have its own logic. It is clear that there is always not enough money. But on the other hand, you need to understand that relations between states require costs. These are different costs. There are diplomatic costs - the maintenance of the diplomatic corps is not cheap for the state. Or, for example, the maintenance of the army. The army is one of the strongest arguments in foreign policy. And the ideological component, I'm not afraid of this word, propaganda, or, as they say now, PR, is no less important than the first two. And it also requires serious financial investments.
V this case The Olympics are one of the elements of foreign policy propaganda, plus a general sports festival.
- One of the ways to win the information war?
- Including. The host country of the Olympics demonstrates what it is capable of. Its technological, construction, organizational capabilities. It is extremely difficult to organize such an event. It is difficult to organize an event at the level of Tarusa - what can we say about an event of such a scale as the Olympics! Therefore, this, of course, is absolutely not wasted money.
I would like to draw the attention of readers to the following thing. We won the right to host the Olympics seven years ago, in 2007. And during these seven years, there were constantly publications of anti-Olympic content.
- Abroad?
- Both abroad and in Russia. What does it mean? The very winning of the right to host the Olympics is already Russia's success, and people who understand what the Olympics are in a political sense are aware that Russia will earn a lot of positive points at the Olympics. Moreover, this does not even depend on the number of medals won. That is, of course, this is also very important point, and we all root for our athletes, but from a political point of view, this sporting result, I would say, is in second place. And in the first place is the very fact of the Olympics being held on Russian territory.
Note: President Putin has taken a huge risk. He decided to hold the Olympics in Sochi. They say: what a strange decision! Winter Olympics - in the subtropics. Do we have no other cities where it could be held? Moscow, Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, etc. There is enough snow in Russia, and there are many cities where it does not melt. And in Sochi, it is melting, and this is a problem. So why?
And because the president chose the most restless point for the Olympics. Near the Caucasus. The Caucasus, which our, as they say now, "partners" claim. Holding the Olympics in the immediate vicinity of the Caucasus strengthens our positions in the region.
- We make it clear: this is our land.
- Not only that we make it clear. It is clear that this is our land and we are not going to give it away. But this is a demonstration that we are in complete control of the situation in this troubled region. We are even holding a world-class event. And we spent it without loss. No terrorist attacks, explosions or anything else, thank God, were allowed.
Seven years ago, our opponents understood all this perfectly, and therefore the task was set in information wars: if not to disrupt the Olympics, it would be absolutely wonderful for them, then at least to harm it as much as possible. In this regard, a systemic information campaign against the Olympics began.
- How was it done?
- This is a very curious thing. Everything that I will say now - you know all this, you have read it in our newspapers and listened to it on our radio, on various radio stations and TV channels. Several so-called ideologemes were launched. These are some ideas, theses that are thrown into the media space and begin to be replicated in the media. If you are not too lazy now and take several articles, say, in the French press, in the English and in the American, an interesting thing will become clear: they are all made according to the same templates. It's like one article, but written in different newspapers and by different people.
- And what are these ideological theses?
- The very first, which began to be developed seven years ago, is the Circassian theme. The so-called "genocide of the Circassians". They say that Circassians lived in this territory, who were forced to leave this territory a hundred years ago under pressure from the Russians. And now, they say, sports events are held on this territory - fun on blood. Abroad, some anti-Olympic committees were urgently created, consisting of three or four Circassians, and these, if I may say so, organizations began to raise their voices against the holding of the Olympics in this territory. They, of course, failed to do anything, but note: this topic was constantly exaggerated.
The second ideologeme is ecology. The construction of the Olympic Village, all these sports facilities, they say, will completely destroy the unique nature of Sochi. At this stage, Greenpeace gets involved. And many people who worry about nature really say: yes, how can you build stadiums there, we'll ruin everything, ruin Krasnaya Polyana, etc. That is, for people who are not indifferent to national problems - the topic of the genocide of the Circassians has been prepared for them. To people concerned environmental issues, a thesis about ecology is proposed. Everything is very well thought out.
- To resist this ideologeme, the president was concerned about the fate of the leopards?
- Including for this. Naturally, there are counter-theses for each of these theses. These are the conditions for information wars.
The third and very strong ideologeme: the Caucasian terrorist threat. It is categorically impossible to hold the Olympics in Sochi, because all the athletes who arrive there will be blown up and destroyed by Caucasian terrorists. Athletes are openly intimidated. Some athletes, in my opinion, from the Netherlands or from some other country, said that they would come only with their special forces in the form of guards. But if we assume that athletes from some country will come with their own bodyguards, what would it be? This is humiliation of Russia, proof that Russia is incapable of ensuring security. Therefore, of course, we did not let any other people's protection here - with the exception of the protection of the heads of state, but this is dictated by international norms. The ideologeme of the terrorist threat was thrown in for people who are afraid of terrorism, and there are a huge number of them.
Fourth. For those who don't like Putin. The whole Olympics, they say, was started in order to amuse "Putin's dictatorial ambitions", "bloody regime" with overcrowded camps, executions and everything in the same spirit. Putin is a terrible person, there is no freedom of speech, it is dangerous to walk on the streets, etc. In the West there is a sea of such publications, you read their newspapers - you can only laugh. But this ideologeme affects someone.
Fifth, corruption. They wrote: everything will be necessarily plundered, and if there is anything left, it is better to distribute this money to the poor (see above). This is a well-functioning ideologeme, because people always do not have enough money. It has long been known: if you want to attack someone, some mayor of a city, for example, or an enterprise manager, accuse him of spending money incorrectly. Instead of distributing funds to people, he either steals them, builds a dacha for himself, or invests in the wrong place, invests, begins, for example, to build a new workshop, and it is not necessary to build a workshop, but to raise wages, etc. It's the same with the Olympics.
Next ideologeme, sixth. The Russians do not know how to do anything and will build badly anyway. Remember all those shots of "double toilets", window handles falling off? The Olympics have even begun, but they still tried to promote this thesis.
And the last ideologeme, the seventh, is homophobia. It was released at the very last moment. For some reason, it was not planned from the very beginning. Most likely, our opponents saw that the listed ideologemes work poorly, and at the last moment, after the adoption of the law banning the promotion of homosexuality among children and adolescents, they tried to use homophobia.
I will note that all these ideologemes did not work. All were countered, including homophobia. Putin with a smile on his face said: yes, please, come! Who's stopping you? And we have banned propaganda among children - and we will stand on it.
The terrorist attacks in Volgograd were also an attempt at intimidation on the eve of the Olympics, this is quite obvious. And it didn't work either. I talked to people who were at the Olympics. Priest Fr. Nikolai Sokolov, the confessor of the Olympics, says that he was shocked by the level and quality of preparation of everything that was done in Sochi. Security is provided so that you walk - and you do not feel either the presence of the police, or any cordons - nothing. Security is not visible. Everyone walks completely free. Each of them has three or four cards to enter sports facilities. In general, everything was prepared in the most thorough way. Everything has been worked out: where can volunteers be, where are the spectators, where is the press, etc.
An interesting thing. All these ideologemes were developed in the West. Five or six years ago I read the first publications in the foreign press. But very soon they were picked up by our liberal media. All of these seven points listed above were worked out by them, as they say, according to full program... I talked to journalists who wrote anti-Olympic articles and asked them this question. Your right is to criticize the Olympics and even oppose its holding: why not? We live in a free country, a journalist expresses his point of view. But why couldn't you come up with any of your own ideologemes with your clever minds? All are licked off from the Western media. Why did you take everything that Western ideologists, Western intellectual centers have prepared for you? They could not answer me anything.
In fact, the theses I'm talking about are not so easy to come up with. At first glance, it seems simple, but a lot of effort and money is spent on their development. So what about our liberals? No self-esteem at all?
- Paid?
- It's not that paid. The fact is that our liberal media, which work against Russia, being inside Russia, do not invent anything on their own in principle. They are a kind of intellectual impotent. They take ideas in Europe, and sell them in the form of their articles here, that is, they are engaged in the sale and purchase of intellectual second-hand goods. And this applies not only to the political component of the Olympics. If we take, say, the problems of culture, it’s the same thing. All kinds of modern forms, if I may say so, culture, author's self-expression, which are being promoted to us here. After all, it has been licked from Europe. This is actually the sale of intellectual "recyclable materials". And the state cannot exist if inside it there are no intellectuals of its own who create their own product, their ideas and meanings: in culture, in education, in science and, in particular, in ideology. If there is no intellectual product of your own, and you only feed on strangers, then the state falls apart.
- It then becomes a colony.
- Quite right. This is one of the elements of the colonization of the country. There is military pressure - for example, NATO's eastward movement, there is a diplomatic component, and there is an ideological, or propaganda, element - this is what we are talking about today as applied to the Olympics.
Please note: in the fall, we are holding the G8 summit in Russia, and it will be held in Sochi. Again here, next to the Caucasus - a political event of great importance! Sergei Ivanov, the head of the Presidential Administration, said correctly: we will no longer have to invest in his organization - everything is ready. And political summits are very expensive events.
The situation with Ukraine, which was brought to blood during the Olympics, is also not accidental. It's like Georgia's attack on Ossetia during the Olympics in China. This Maidan is a signal to Russia. Holding the Olympics is a complete political victory for Russia in this constantly ongoing ideological struggle - so here you are, Ukraine! Why didn't some European leaders come to the Olympics? We could not overpower ourselves. How so - to come to the winner. But Vladimir Putin outplayed them in this sense. They will still come to Sochi for the G8. Will not go anywhere.
The main thing is that we now have, after Russky Island, on Far East and a strategically important political center has been created in the south of Russia. We are setting up our territory, to which there are quite a few people willing. This is how politics is done.
- What impression did the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games make on you?
- The reaction inside Russia to the opening ceremony is very curious. The event was made in the style of the avant-garde. In art there is different languages: classic, modern, avant-garde and so on. The avant-garde was very popular at the beginning of the 20th century. It is associated with the post-revolutionary art of Soviet Russia, although it originated in Europe long before our revolution. And this style in art is very much loved by the liberal intelligentsia. Its main difference is the denial of the religious component in man and the world.
A strange situation arose: those liberal media, which actively promoted the seven aforementioned theses against the Olympics, suddenly accepted the opening of the Games with delight. They really liked it. And people who are referred to as patriots, statesmen, state-owners - they reacted negatively to this style, even critically.
- It turned out that apart from Chagall, Malevich and Kandinsky, we have no more artists.
- Exactly. I, too, I must say, was critical of this. The language of the avant-garde is interesting, but personally alien to me. It seemed to me that the spiritual component was completely released from the history of Russia and our victories were released. A very small hint of the Great World War II, and that's it. But as Konstantin Ernst, the main director of the whole action, later explained, the International Olympic Committee strongly recommended that the mention of the Second World War be removed. They say that German athletes are also participating, you should not sharpen it ...
- Yes, we may not like French athletes, both Polish and Swedish ... What other countries did Russia give in the teeth throughout its history? What, don't show anything now?
- I agree. But - if you look at it from a political point of view - Russia spoke to those who opposed the Olympics for six years in a row in their language and made them love and support this Olympics. This can be called political maneuvers.
But the closure of the Olympics was done somewhat differently, in a more soil-based spirit and ended with the removal of an Easter egg - a symbol of Christian Russia. In fact, the symbolism of opening and closing can be disassembled for a long time and in detail. I would only like to draw your attention to the roll call of two Olympic Bears - the 1980 Olympics and the current one. It was played in a teardrop from the left eye. This is not just a touching memory. This is the inclusion of the Soviet Olympics in its historical political baggage. That Soviet Olympics belonged to the entire USSR. They have forgotten about it, practically all the former republics have given up on it. But history is also capital, and it is stupid and unreasonable to abandon it. If you don't want it, whatever you want, and Russia took the 1980 Olympics into its political asset. In the same way, it was Russia that remained virtually the only heir to the Victory of 1945, and the flight into space of Gagarin, and other very important symbols that unite the people.
Concluding our conversation, I would like to say that the world can be controlled in two ways: weapons and meanings, ideas. These two methods always stand side by side, and meanings are no less important than weapons. So the past Olympics is not a waste of money. They are invested in our children, in the future of our country. Trust me.
Interviewed by G. PLUSHCHEVSKAYA.
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And even shame: all of us, not only our wonderful working athletes, but the whole country, were publicly humiliated, insulted, accused of dishonesty and forgery, subjected to public flogging in the media, without giving absolutely no concrete evidence, and now we hastily wiped off the spitting and are glad that we were allowed into the hallway of world sports ...
You need to understand: the current attack by international sports officials and Western media against Russia convincingly proves that sport, no matter what they say, has always been and is a part of big international politics.
By the way, this was well understood even in Ancient Greece, where the Olympic Games were invented. There, for the duration of the Games, all wars were stopped, thus turning sports competition into an element of pacification. And glorifying their Olympic heroes, crowning them with laurel wreaths, the Greeks understood that this helps to unite the nation, and, consequently, strengthen the state and increase prestige. state power... And what is all this - if not politics?
This lesson was learned well by Hitler. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the 1936 Olympics, which was held in the capital Nazi Germany... At that time, the country had already adopted the Nuremberg Laws on the "purity of blood" and it was clear what the Hitler regime was, but the IOC "did not notice." During the voting for the selection of the venue for the 1936 Games, Berlin received 43 votes, while its rival - Barcelona - just 16.
In other words, sports officials, mostly European, voted for a state that was actively preparing to start world war... This testifies to the fact that over the past 80 years since then, the thinking of the European bureaucracy has not changed in any way, and is not distinguished by any particular perspicacity.
But Hitler, with the support of European sports officials, managed to use the Olympics in Berlin to strengthen the image of his regime one hundred percent, especially since German athletes won it. He personally attended almost all competitions in athletics... I also came to the closing ceremony. And when the orchestra played the melody "The Games Are Over", the spectators in a single impulse in the huge stadium stood up and, stretching out their arms in a Nazi salute, began to chant in ecstasy: "Sieg heil! Our Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, Sieg Heil! "
Hitler, with the help of the Olympics, with the active support of European and American sports officials, achieved what he wanted. The next day, The New York Times welcomed Germany's return to the family of "civilized nations." What after that this "civilized" country has done is known ...
By the way, the idea of the torch of the Olympic flame was first tested at the Games in Germany. By analogy with the night torchlight processions of stormtroopers. However, even then the IOC did not see anything special in this.
In Germany, in accordance with the "new order", all "non-Aryans", even champions, were removed from all sports clubs and the national team on the eve of the Olympics. However, when the IOC commission headed by the American Avery Brandedge arrived in Berlin, she "did not notice" all this. Nor did I notice that in this country more than 50 thousand political prisoners were languishing in prisons and concentration camps. E. Brandage, returning to the United States, publicly stated that the boycott is "an idea alien to the spirit of America, a conspiracy to politicize the Olympic Games," and "Jews must understand that they cannot use the Games as a weapon in the fight against the Nazis."
The founder of the modern Olympic movement, Baron de Coubertin, was on excellent terms with the Nazis. The Fuhrer personally sent him 10 thousand Reichsmarks to "strengthen the Olympic movement." And he willingly accepted them.
In August 1935, de Coubertin visited Germany, was delighted with the "progress of sports", and, later speaking on state radio, called Hitler one of the best creative spirits of our era. Soon the Baron received a life pension from Germany "for his contribution to the cause of peace."
Almost all the Games were accompanied by political scandals after late XIX century revived the Olympic movement. The 1956 Melbourne Games were boycotted by three groups of countries - Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon - to protest the Suez Crisis, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland - to protest the actions Soviet troops in Hungary, and China in protest against what the IOC has recognized by the Taiwan Olympic Committee.
The Seoul Games were boycotted by North Korea, Cuba, Ethiopia and Nicaragua. And at the Olympic Games in Munich, tragedy struck: Palestinian terrorists took members of the Israeli sports delegation hostage. In response to the belated and ill-considered actions of the Bavarian police, the terrorists opened fire and killed the hostages.
At the London Games, Argentina declared a boycott due to the conflict with England over the Falkland Islands. And President Alexander Lukashenko, who is also the head of the Belarusian NOC, was denied accreditation.
When Moscow was chosen as the venue for the 1980 Olympics, a fierce campaign began in the West to interfere with its holding at any cost. In the USA, Australia and a number of other countries, the slogan was put forward: "To transfer the 1980 Summer Games from Moscow." The claims that were made at that time to the organizers of the Olympics were of a political nature (the possibility of banning athletes and tourists from "undesirable" countries from entering the USSR, future "collusion" of athletes from socialist states, media censorship, violation of human rights in the USSR, persecution of "dissidents ", Etc.), and economic and household (using the Olympics to strengthen Soviet economy and establishing contacts with Western firms, lack of good service, problems with hotels and restaurants, huge queues, etc.). And when the USSR managed to remove many of these problems, the United States decided, under the pretext of protest against the introduction of Soviet troops into Afghanistan, to simply boycott the Olympics in Moscow, to which a number of its supporters joined.
By the way, later, during the Game in Los Angeles, the Soviet Union repaid the Americans with the same coin.
Now the Olympics are again a political weapon. A new means of fighting political opponents has been adopted - doping. Although it is known that in terms of the number of cases with the detection of doping, Russia occupies a place only somewhere in the third ten countries participating in the Olympics, the main blow was directed against it. Could we win this battle against a close-knit team of Western officials, functionaries of international sports organizations, a massive offensive by Western media? Unlikely. We lost. But this does not mean that you need to sprinkle ashes on your head and stop fighting.
We have been attacked and will be attacked cold war continues and will go on for a long time.
We must fight and stand. Don't just have fun on the screen and pretend that nothing happened, as if our athletes are going to Brazil for a joyful sports event. They are going to battle. It will be very difficult and difficult for them at the Games. Let's support them!
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The Olympic Games have long been a political event. The upcoming Games in London were no exception. Nor was the Beijing Olympics, which was poisoned by the aggression against South Ossetia by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. Wars, mutual boycotts of the sports festival, hostage-taking ... Alas, no money has yet been found for the politicization of sports.
Recently, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been fighting for the maximum equality of men and women. Due to gender inequality, two rich Arab countries, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, nearly lost their right to participate in the Olympics. The strictest norms of Islam operate there; there were no women in their teams since they were born. But now they will - of course, in hijabs. As it turns out, for the sake of the Olympics, the prohibitions can be weakened a little.
For the first time in 40 years, a united UK national football team was to appear at the Olympics. As you know, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have separate teams, and because of this, the British Olympic team virtually ceased to exist. For the sake of the home tournament, it was decided to revive it, but in the preliminary application there are only players from England and Wales. Scotland and Ulster refused to share football independence.
The first Olympic Games of antiquity took place in 776 BC. And initially they had a political meaning. It was assumed that for the duration of the competition, which lasted two weeks, wars should stop throughout ancient Greece. When, at the end of the 19th century, Baron Pierre de Coubertin decided to revive the Games, he proclaimed: "O sport! You are the world." Alas, politicians didn't always want to hear him.
If in ancient Greece wars stopped during the Olympics, then in the twentieth century it was not so. The games of 1916 in Berlin, 1940 in Tokyo and Helsinki, 1944 in London were thwarted - the world wars prevented. There were no more cases of cancellation of the main sporting event. But politics still rudely and shamelessly interfered in the course of the Games.
The games of 1936 in Berlin have long been considered an example of the politicization of sports. Adolf Hitler dreamed of turning them into the triumph of the Aryan race. However, the black American Jesse Owens won the competition in the 100 and 200 meters. They say that the Fuhrer was furious. Legend has it that Hitler defiantly did not come out to congratulate the winner. But this is just a legend. In fact, no protocol obliged him to do this. But the leader of the Third Reich was annoyed for sure.
Why was there no Soviet Union national team at the Olympics until 1952, although before the First World War the team Russian Empire did you participate in the Games? Because she existed in a hostile environment, and everyone else tried to isolate her as much as possible. This also applied to sports. Only in 1952 in Helsinki the "Olympic blockade" was finally interrupted.
In 1956, the Olympics were held in Melbourne. And the echo of events in Hungary came to distant Australia, when Soviet troops suppressed the anti-communist uprising of the Magyars. Soviet and Hungarian water polo players met in the final, but the match was more like a massacre. Our rivals fought, kicked, openly insulted Soviet players for political reasons. As a result, the Magyars won - and in full force they decided not to return to their homeland.
In 1964, due to the apartheid regime, the South African team was suspended from the Games for 28 years. Four years later, the GDR team first appeared at the main sports festival. Prior to that, East Germany was not allowed to compete separately, and for three Olympics in a row a united German team was sent to the Games, where athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany predominated. The reason was again political: West Germany, and after it, other Western countries did not recognize the GDR. Or only partially recognized.
At the 1972 Olympics in Munich, the largest tragedy in modern Olympic history... Members of the Palestinian Black September group took hostage a group of athletes and coaches from Israel. As a result of the unsuccessful assault, 11 hostages and one policeman were killed. The games were interrupted for one day, and the USSR delegation ignored a minute of silence. Moscow decided that since Israel is a hostile state, one can ignore it ...
In 1976, delegations from more than 20 African countries did not attend the Montreal Games. They did not like the fact that not long before that the South African national team, suspended from the Olympics due to the policy of apartheid, had played in the international rugby tournament. Although rugby is not an Olympic sport, the Africans have not been persuaded.
The most high-profile case of political interference in sports occurred at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics. Due to the introduction of Soviet troops into Afghanistan, delegations from dozens of countries, including the United States, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Norway, Turkey, Argentina, did not arrive in Moscow. The socialist countries, led by the USSR, responded to this four years later by boycotting the Games in Los Angeles. True, Romania and Yugoslavia, who were somewhat aloof, went to the United States.
At the Olympics in Los Angeles, another long-awaited event happened: the Olympic debut of the PRC national team. Prior to that, Beijing refused to participate in the Games for the reason that representatives of Taiwan were allowed to attend. For a long time, it was the Taiwanese who single-handedly represented China. Finally, the IOC decided to admit both China and Taiwan to the Games. And until now, the "two Chinas" are different teams.
The 1988 Olympics were held in Seoul. The DPRK authorities insisted that the Games should be hosted not only in South Korea, but also in North Korea. However, Pyongyang was never given any competition, and as a result, the followers of the Juche ideas ignored the game. After them, representatives of several other socialist countries (for example, Cuba) did the same. But the USSR and the delegations of the European socialist countries came to South Korea.
The 1992 Games took place against the backdrop of the collapse of the USSR and Yugoslavia. As a result, the CIS team, made up of representatives of 12 republics, arrived in Barcelona. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were admitted as separate countries. As for Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, which were under the pressure of international sanctions, were not allowed into Spain. But Slovenia and Croatia brought their delegations. Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia were not in Barcelona either. We didn't have time to form their own Olympic committees ...
Politics returned to the 2008 Olympics. Many were unhappy with the fact that it will be held in Beijing. The Chinese recalled the violation of human rights; during the Olympic torch relay, supporters of Tibetan independence staged their political actions. Some leaders of Western states defiantly did not attend the opening of the Games.
Unfortunately, in the early days of the Olympics, Russia and Georgia had no time for sports. For the first time in history, the leader of one of the states timed the beginning of the war to coincide with the opening of the Games. Of course, we are talking about Mikhail Saakashvili. "Patriotic frenzy" has seized some Georgian athletes as well, they wanted to withdraw from the competition, return to their homeland and pick up the machine guns. They didn't have time - the war ended quickly.
The USA also distinguished themselves. At the opening of the Beijing Olympics, the stars and stripes were carried by a native of South Sudan, Lopez Bomong. So the Americans expressed their dissatisfaction with the fact that China cooperated with Northern Sudan, declared by the West a rogue state. And at the closing ceremony, the American flag was in the hands of a Georgian native Khatuna Lorig. This is how Washington supported Georgia after the war in South Ossetia.
It should not be surprising that before the London Olympics, political moments reminded of themselves. Apparently, politics will influence the main sport festival for a long time to come. No funds have yet been found to depoliticize the Olympic Games. And are they looking for him at all?
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The upcoming Olympic Games in Sochi will not only be an important event in the world of sports. It will also an important event for President Putin. That is to say, an exam, a test of strength. This Olympics is, in many ways, ITS Olympics - it is Putin, before leaving the presidency, he went practically to the ends of the world to achieve the Olympics for our country. The venue, Sochi, is also largely determined by Putin's predilections. He put a lot into it. Therefore, now he is extremely interested in its success. 2013 was successful for Putin, who was named by many as one of the most influential and significant politicians and people in the world. 2014 is the year when lame duck Barack Obama, who in 2013 suffered a series of significant defeats and lost in the rankings, will take revenge. It had already reached the point that voices began to be heard in America itself, that, they say, it would not be bad to throw the Presidents at Russia. The positive qualities of the President of Russia were noted, most importantly, by the American neocons, who are the most prominent exponents of the US anti-Russian policy.
1. "Blue" question.
It all started with the well-known law banning homopropaganda (which, by the way, today operate in 8 American states, including Utah and Texas), which caused huge outrage among the Western public. LGBT activists screamed like slaughtered pigs. Obama supported LGBT people. Same-sex "marriages" are legalized in France, which provoked massive protests (millions took to the streets) of supporters of traditional values - and a considerable number of their participants openly spoke out in support of Russia. Putin's longtime fan, leader of the French right, Marine Le Pen, spoke about her support for this initiative of Putin. On the part of LGBT supporters, there were calls to boycott the Sochi Olympics. World leaders seem to have declared that they will not go to the Olympics for this very reason, very few of the second echelon: Obama, Cameron, Hollande will not go to Sochi for this very reason. but because they don't want to. In any case, they simply do not want to be present at the actual triumph of Russia and the Russian President. President Obama has openly included open homosexuals in the US national team and delegation. Putin said that homosexuals of all countries are free to come to Sochi. However, it is possible that same-sex kisses on cameras await us at the Olympics - I am sure that some Western athletes will do this on purpose and deliberately when they win, declaring that they are "protesting against the homophobic law." However, God is their judge.
2. Terrorist attacks.
The worst thing that everyone is afraid of. For a terrorist attack on the day of the beginning of the Olympics is scary, it is a real stain on the country's reputation, it is a darkening of the holiday of sports. But the Olympics will take place not far from the hotbeds of tension in the region. And if it goes even further, then there is Syria. In general, such a threat strains many. If you look in the other direction - here you have restless Ukraine next to you, here you also have the American fleet that entered the Black Sea. And a lot more. The closer to the Olympics, the more tension will grow. It is the duty of the President to prevent any excesses that could darken this bright sports festival.
3. The rise of patriotism.
That we are all about the bad, let's say about the good too. I am personally pleased to see that the level of patriotism has noticeably increased in society - Russians confidently declare their love for their homeland, openly believe in our athletes and are proud of it. It's nice that patriotism today is acute and even comme il faut in modern Russian society. It is good form to be a patriot today. And this is good. It was in the 90s that it was customary to water their homeland with slops and strive to leave for a free and distant America, in which there is only happiness and real dolce vita... To fly the Russian flag, root for Russia, be proud of our history and country - today this is quite naturally accepted by society. This is fine. And it pleases. Each victory of a Russian athlete in Sochi will cause an unrealistic surge of patriotism. And people also specifically connect digital television to follow sports events from their homes. Interest in sports is growing. Young people join him. All this causes only pride, only the most pleasant feelings.
The Sochi Olympics is an event that is significant not only for the world of sports. It is also an important political event. This is a possible bonus to the treasury of Russia and President Putin (whatever they say, but today he really occupies a significant place in Russian politics and in world politics): the successful holding of the Olympics practically without serious excesses, and even with a significant number of medals of our athletes - all this will raise the weight and prestige of Russia on the world stage. There is no doubt that Putin will use this success in the 2018 elections as well - the real victories of our athletes may well overshadow in the eyes of the people all the costs of the Olympics, all corruption scandals and so on. But failures and failures will only add fuel to the fire of discontent. Therefore, it is so important for Putin that the Olympics go smoothly, without a hitch.
However, Russian citizens do not have to bother with this and just look at the competition of athletes, of course, rooting for ours.