Through the fence

18 June 2018, 19:44 | Policy
photo ТСН.ua
Text Size:

The expression "Sport outside politics!" Has long been part of the international thrill. This spell. It, as befits all spells, is empty, barren. It only emphasizes that sport has long been in politics to the ears - in politics and, incidentally, in the economy. Talk about it - such a political economy. The same football at the beginning of its journey was almost exclusively for football players, like other sports - for their fans. Then - for the tribunes and businessmen. Gradually, it all entered the world of spectacles, while remaining there, to become a tool for politicians. Winston Churchill after the Olympics-1936 in Berlin: "When the sport enters the international level, for example, at the Olympics or other competitions between countries, this leads, rather, to enmity, rather than to the unification of countries". This is directly in the direction of the owners of not completely free and not completely free countries, "writes Anatoly Strelian in the column on" Radio Liberty ".

Otherwise, we would not watch today how many fans from which countries with their rulers, except for the players themselves, their mentors and employers, entered Russia into the world football championship. It was penetrated, and not just arrived and arrived, because - through the fence of international sanctions. One thing that was discussed was whether a boycott of the 2018 World Cup is needed and is said, in fact, about everything that is asked for here. This discussion is an event in a sense almost as serious as the boycott itself would have been.

Can you imagine that the world is discussing, whether to go to football fields, for example, France? Yes, you can imagine it if she still waged war in Algeria. The World Cup before our eyes, perhaps, finally takes Russia out of a number of countries with which the free world not only maintains some kind of relationship, but quietly, without difficult meditations and internal disputes, conducts ordinary affairs.

The Olympic Games of 1936 took place in Germany three years after Hitler came to power and three years before World War II, unleashed by him. Germany then wanted to conquer the world. The whole world. Current Russia is somewhat more modest. She wants to just be on an equal footing with the leading states, but on a special position. The fence around it is not quite ordinary. We will remind ourselves and remind: it was not Russia who built it.

Russia insists that it would like, prospering, to exist on Earth without any fences and harassment, but on one condition: that the free world recognize its right to arbitrariness, both within its own limits, and wherever it pleases. She did not come across an understanding of what was to be expected, but just this her rulers did not expect. This is how the country found itself outside the fence.

The conversation about the World Cup 2018 is a conversation, no matter how it is, about Ukraine. The boycott of the stadiums in Russia, albeit partial, showed that Ukraine is not forgotten, it is supported, it wants to win by no means on the football field. We are once again convinced that the destinies of the Ukraine-Russia couple are in many respects in the hands of the West. Moscow denies this in every possible way. She pretends that everything decides everything, that everything depends on her, and the one who is against her will see Kuz'kin's mother.

The population is told that the West does not really need it, like in general, other parts of the world, but the leaders really think differently. Bezobraznachat only at home - for them not that pleasure. Ukraine, in turn, does not deny that the free world is vitally important to it, that without it it will be lost. But does the West understand that with Ukraine it can disappear?.

It seems, he starts to guess.

Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Join also the TSN group. Blogs on facebook and follow the updates of the section!.




Add a comment
:D :lol: :-) ;-) 8) :-| :-* :oops: :sad: :cry: :o :-? :-x :eek: :zzz :P :roll: :sigh:
 Enter the correct answer