Ian Austin MP / Boris : Putin will use Russia World cup like Hitler did at Olympics
 

Long Time back Boris
not wise to say "Hitler"

Update:
It was Labour MP Ian Austin
who said the words and Boris agreed
ref: DP 23/3/18 BBC2HD last 8mins

Summer 1936
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics
well done USA Jesse Owens beating the Blonde Germans


https://news.sky.com/story/live-bori...rexit-11298986


[The Foreign Secretary fields questions from the Foreign Affairs committee in Parliament.]

This is what happens when you give a mans job to a boy.

can you explain what you mean as Boris is not a boy and he made a comparison?

It was a Labour MP who made the comparison initially, Boris just agreed with it

Labour MP
yes .

Boris Johnson said that Putin will use the World Cup in the same say that Hitler used the Olympics, ie: for propaganda purposes. And he's not the only one thinking it. I've had this self-same conversation with someone just recently. I'm sure most people will be able to understand the comparison Boris was making.

So it was Labour MP Ian Austin that said those Nazi words, first
and Boris agreed

It was indeed.

Yeah this has been widely misreported as Boris saying it, he didn't, he said the Labour guy who said was probably right. :shrug: Even so it is probably right, Putin is going to use it as a propaganda tool.

I think it's a fair statement.

We were there in 36, we won gold in the ice hockey... Our football team were in Germany in 38 for the cup final... nazi salutes all round



'Here is the English football team giving the Nazi salute to Germany in 1938. While Jewish, disabled, sick, and elderly Germans were being sent to concentration and death camps, it was business as usual as far as the UK establishment was concerned.'

No talk of boycotting the event though?...

https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/201...-nazi-germany/

I think Jess Owens is the most important and memorable thing about the Nazi Olympics.

The oppressed standing up to oppression? I agree.

Then he's stupid and Boris was equally stupid to adopt what he said.

but you dont say why?

Because more than two million Soviet Jews are believed to have died during the Holocaust and in warfare against the Nazi's and over six million Russian soldiers were killed fighting the Germans.

Ok, but what has that to do with the Propaganda comparison using a world watched sporting event?

Yes Fair Points DR

that it will play very badly with ordinary Russians, even those against Putin

I get that Treeeza wants to keep bojo in the tent pissing out, but foreign affairs is probably the last brief he should have been given

I dont think Putin is very interested in "ordinary Russians"..

but we are not interested in alienating ordinary Russians

they get lied to via controlled media, I doubt anything the UK says comes to them straight or they have been lied to for so long everything "plays badly"

And we don't?!? You believe we are told it straight... how it is? I think you'l find that we've been lied to quite a bit, especially about Russia.

Whats owen jones tweeting Demo?