Soviet Sports Part 1: Manufacturing Homo Sovieticus

Semi-Intellectual Musings by Diskurs Productions

Jun 27, 201869:23Science & Medicine

This week Matt chats with Kristaps Andrejsons, from the Eastern Border Podcast , about the Soviet Union’s mass athletics program. Sport is always political, by examining the intentions behind the program we learn about t...

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