In the nearly centurylong history of soccer’s greatest spectacle, the World Cup has survived dictators, juntas, and a menagerie of autocrats who sought to exploit the tournament for their own glorification. Benito Mussolini turned the 1934 tournament in Italy into a fascist pageant. Argentina’s military rulers in 1978 deployed it as a propaganda weapon even as they were disappearing thousands of their own citizens. Vladimir Putin used the 2018 event to project an image of normalcy in Russia

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