Authoritarian regimes often used sports, especially football, for propaganda. For example, Mussolini did it in the 1934 World Cup, and was “copied” by Brazil in 1950 – except they lost the final match. Other times the kermesse is created out of nothing. This is the case of the Gold Cup played in Uruguay between 1980 and 1981. A basically useless competition, wanted by the deviated Masonic Lodge P2 and the Uruguayan dictatorship…
Uruguay 1980, il Mundialito della P2
Da Mussolini in poi (mondiali Italia 1934), i regimi autoritari (ma non solo) hanno sfruttato le grandi manifestazioni sportive internazionali per propaganda politica. A volte l’evento è persino creato dal nulla, come il Mundialito disputato in Uruguay a cavallo tra 1980 e 1981…
Well, the one on the left was on the right…
In Italy, the matter of what is the right and what is the left suggests the approach of the 5 Stars Movement or a famous song by Giorgio Gaber, who 20 years ago sang that the differences between right and left were already minimal…
Sesso e potere, la scalata sociale di Rasputin
Sesso e potere vanno di pari passo, con vantaggi reciproci. Il cliché vuole uomini dall’importante status particolarmente sensibili al fascino femminile, ma ad inizio ‘900 fu il noto monaco mistico Rasputin a sfruttare il proprio corpo per salire nella scala sociale…