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kennyisacunt t1_jc8bxvi wrote

Reply to comment by JeffFromSchool in Not up to UK to decide Russian Olympic ban - IOC by rejs7

The 20th Century? The century that had 2 world wars, a Cold War that led to a blocked off, isolated world, and boycotts of international competitions by "blocks" of countries that got along politically?

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Nepiton t1_jc8pkrv wrote

Don’t forget about the global depression as well that left many destitute and on the brink of starvation, Mao Zedong, Stalin, the Spanish Flu, American assassinations of POC, Jim Crowe, segregation, the Spanish Civil War, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, HIV, the Rwandan genocide.

The list goes on and on

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