• Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    My guess is this douchebag was young, easily impressionable, and absolutely desperate to fit in socially with the rest of the people in the sport.

    This is a bad recipe for socialists in sports, because sports people from capitalist countries are going to continue being the majority for a long time. They travel abroad, want to fit in and end up taking on the role of a pick-me. Everyone joining a new community is going to try to fit into that community and the advantage of capitalist hegemony is going to affect socialist sports people, especially because they’re young.

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      32 years ago

      Communist countries are deliberately isolated, and then western propaganda will go “see, they’re missing out on our 18 different flavors of delicious Chef Boyardee!” and to a dumb teenager during soviet stagnation it would be pretty easy to fall for it.