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Lenin’s Plan for Monumental Propaganda was the first concerted attempt by the Soviet government to erect statues and monuments to the new communist state.  The project envisaged the removal of Tsarist-era statues and the installation of a number of different sculptures, reliefs and other monuments honouring the ‘Russian Socialist Revolution’.  The list of suitable candidates […]

These rather wonderful Olympia-Hefte were obviously conceived by Goebbels as a means of getting the German public behind the 1936 Berlin Games.  But they also serve to explain the history of various sports.  Parts 2–24 cover skiing, bobsleigh and ice hockey, ice skating, football, handball, hockey, running, pentathlon and decathlon, jumping, throwing, boxing, weightlifting and wrestling, […]