Why do totalitarian states love sports so much? You see it in

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CHADS

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they liked to show off their people's athletic skills and abilities to show off to other countries.

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its a celebration of strength and totalitarians use the physicalism of athletics to make a symbolic statement of what they want people to see them as. it also celebrates such virtues as (physical and self) discipline, subordination of one's personal will to the team or team leader, and also the idea that the professional athlete is the bearer of his nation's honor and values and so if responsible for upholding those in the arena of international competition.

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For Germany it was to prove Hitler's idea that his people were naturally more muscular and better athletes than people they considered inferior. It was basically to push propaganda.

It's competitive, so it creates a good opportunity to demonstrate your country's superiority.