Defiance At Its Best
The Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, was riddled with Nazi propaganda. It resembled nothing of the fair-play ideals the competition stood for. Adolf Hitler was convinced that the Aryan Germans were superior and would dominate the Games. After Jesse Owens, a black long-jumper from America took first place in front of German Luz long, Hitler refused to shake Owens’ hand. When standing at the podium to receive his medal, Owens refused to salute the Nazi salute.
Defiance At Its Best
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Before you start making your own assumptions of who’s who here, we’ll tell you. This is Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev lighting Indonesian president Sukarno’s cigarette with his own. Sukarno was Indonesia’s first president and his term lasted from 1945 until 1967.
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