Beijing 2008: The Totalitarian Games by Kyle-Anne Shiver
When I first heard the news that Mao’s workers’ paradise, China, was chosen to host these Summer 2008 Olympic Games, I had a slight laugh before grabbing the smelling salts. Could the IOC possibly have done more, in a single swoop, to render itself a laughingstock?
If there is one thing totalitarian regimes do better than squashing liberty, it’s putting on farcical fronts for the rest of the world.
This is not rocket science.
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