Nazi Art Linked to Russia’s Winter Olympics

May 17, 2011 · 17910 views

Nazi style images are being used to promote Gorky Gorod, an elite housing complex which will serve as the Olympic media village at the 2014 Games in Russia.

According to the Guardian

One of the designers at Doping-Pong, Mishenina Dima said he did not sympathize with extreme right-wing, but added “The Olympic aesthetics begins in Berlin in 1936, it created a Leni Riefenstahl.” Regarding the use of Nazi iconography in his other works he said: “When I use the symbol of culture of Nazi Germany, for example, swastikas, of course I use it as a representative of the winner.

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