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Cold War Olympics - A New Battlefront in Psychological Warfare, 1948-1956 (Paperback)
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Cold War Olympics - A New Battlefront in Psychological Warfare, 1948-1956 (Paperback)
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The political tension of the Cold War bled into the Olympic Games
when each side engaged in psychological warfare, exploiting sport
for political ends. In Helsinki, the Soviet Union nearly overtook
the United States in the medal count. Caught off guard, the U.S.
hastened to respond, certain that the Soviets would use a victory
at the next Olympics to broadcast their superiority over the
Western world. Following the 1956 suppression of the Hungarian
uprising, a Soviet athlete struck a Hungarian opponent in the
Melbourne water polo semifinals, turning the pool red. The United
States covertly encouraged Eastern Bloc athletes to defect,
communist Chinese agents nearly succeeded in goading the Taiwanese
government into withdrawing from the games, and a forbidden romance
between an American and Czech athlete resulted in a politically
complex marriage. This history describes those stories and more
that resulted from the complicated relationship between Cold War
politics and the Olympics.
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