
World Corrupt Episode 1: A Toxic Love Affair between Politics and Sports
Pod Save the World
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Mussolini's World Cup
Mussolini and his girlfriend tried to escape the Axis powers in 1945. They got captured near Lake Cuomo, which is now a New York lake. Mussolini was pretty quickly executed by firing squad. In 1978 Argentinians were living under just a ruthless military dictatorship. There was one notorious prison-slash torture chamber so close to the World Cup stadium that prisoners could hear the crowd cheering from themselves. I mean I can't imagine more of a nightmare.
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