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Originally Posted by HockeyKhan
We should not be celebrating a person who continues to support a known war criminal and child killer. His friends people have been proven to rape and torture children.
I can't understand why this isn't a bigger issue in the hockey world.
If a player supported and was friends with someone who did this to one child he would be an outcast, let alone someone who has thousands of such brutalities to his name. Is it because his friend, the killer, is so bad that it gets ignored?
His friend is an internationally wanted war criminal.
Someone please help me understand why this is tolerated. This includes having a thread on cp praising Ovechkin, discusting in my opinion.
Please have a look at this article:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/alex-o...utin-1.6726430 |
Some very valid points without a doubt. I struggle with this myself as well and it is different for Russian players, especially elite ones. They are part of a different scene and are at different levels of risk. Putin does put prominent athletes out there to sell his propaganda, just like sometimes I think other countries as well without the same negative effects.
I do think Ovi is Pro Russia and Pro Putin and that's ok. Is he pro war with Ukraine? I don't know, probably not but who knows. I know there is some concerns with his social media pictures and Putin and those are valid but they are also just pictures. How he feels in his heart and his mind is probably more important. You can still love your country, your leader, your history and not agree with everything.
Although not the best comparison, I recall Tom Brady having a MAGA hat in his locker, showing minor support for Trump running for President. I believe they may have had a friendly, golf style friendship/relationship. The press picked up on it and everybody went nuts. After he won the election and the Patriots were scheduled to go to the White House, seemed like his wife put the hammer down and he decided not to go.
I never thought anybody would get this close to Gretzky and he isn't quite there yet but it's interesting to see. Ovi is in sports at the moment and not politics so we can judge him based on that. If he breaks the record, I will be observing as a hockey fan at this accomplishment. If he doesn't for whatever reason, I will say it's probably karma in some ways.