Stephen Fry to David Cameron and IOC: a Russian 2014 Olympics would be a repeat of the 1936 Berlin games

Exactly. If your government is going to be a bunch of ruthless murderers, better for them to have communism in their hearts than whatever breed of insanity that normally grips that type.

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Russiaā€™s prison camps may not be ā€˜death campsā€™ in the strict sense that they deliberately kill the people imprisoned there, but they are thoroughly inhumane gulag-style establishments, and the fact that there are places in Russia where there are laws on the books that make it illegal to talk about LGBT issues - or be an LGBT person and talk about your own identity at all - mean it isnā€™t out of the question that you could be on the next Pussy Riot express out to some work camp simply because you were gay and out.

Itā€™s a sporting event, not a crowbar to be used to effect political change.

Lobby the IOC by all means, but donā€™t screw our sportspeople over by boycotting Games.

So half the US before sodomy laws were struck down?

I disagree, I think the Olympics is a crowbar used for political effect. Itā€™s just that the political effect is always pro-fascism.

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