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How and why did sports become so heavily subsidized by the USSR? Why did the USSR feel sports was important enough to establish a sports council just 3 years after the troubles of the Revolution? Was there a major change in government involvement around the '52 Olympics?

by /u/screwyoushadowban in /r/AskHistorians

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