TFO wrote:
Err. Yes, actually.
Better than that. Guess which host came up with the idea of having an Olympic torch relay in the first place?
Here we see the "Perpetual Flame of Greek Enlightenment" being delivered to its "rightful heirs" (by a suitably selected "Aryan" specimen of an athlete, surrounded by Nazi Swastikas), to the Third Reich, in a 100% pure Nazi propaganda exercise (overseen by propaganda meister Joseph Goebbels himself, no less, and filmed by the famous Nazi propaganda film director Leni Riefenstahl), meant to be symbolic of the path that "Aryan superiority" took from "the Birth of Reason" in Ancient Greece until its culmination in the heights of the glorious Third Reich.
The Nazis invented the Olympic torch relay - completely as a political exercise to suggest that they were the heirs of the Ancient Greek legacy (note also that the Nazi Eagle is also just a straight steal of the original Roman Eagle, which Caesar carried before him into battle to conquer Europe - again, the symbolism is meant to convey that they were the "rightful heirs" of the Ancient Roman legacy and that the Third Reich would be "the New Roman Empire", in a manner of speaking).
Puts the calls for "let's keep the politics out of the Olympic torch relay" into an eerie new light, doesn't it?

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