The occupation “authorities” use sports as a propaganda tool in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, reports the National Resistance Center. According to the center, sport has always been an important part of the international image of any state, a means of “soft power.” And for totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, it has become a weapon of propaganda for their own ideology. “For example, the 1934 FIFA World Cup and the 1936 Olympic Games played an important role in the propaganda of the Italian fascists and the German Nazis. Hitler and Mussolini wanted not only to organize and …