Beijing like Berlin..........?  History might not repeat, exactly, but sometimes it does rhyme..Paris Olympics were recent.....Hitler invaded it, after he took Czechoslovakia, which Italy beat b/c in part Mussolini probably threatened the refs with God knows what..

Yes, in 1934, Italy won the FIFA World Cup hosted in Italy, a major propaganda victory for the Fascist regime under Il Duce Benito Mussolini, who used the tournament to promote his regime's power, with the team beating Czechoslovakia in extra time in a controversial final in Rome

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