Word: propaganada
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That sentiment about the Olympics has not always held true. In Berlin in 1936, Hitler turned the Games into a goose-stepping showcase of Nazi propaganada. World Wars I and II snuffed out the 1916, 1940 and 1944 Olympiads. The 1972 Munich Games were shattered by an Arab terrorist attack on the Israeli team that left eleven Israeli athletes dead. Past Games have also been boycotted: in 1956, for example, Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands withdrew from the Melbourne Olympics as a protest of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. And in 1976, 28 African nations abandoned the Montreal Games...
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