Reddit reviews LES HEROS DU SPORT - UNE HISTOIRE DES CHAMPIONS SOVIETIQUE (LA CHOSE PUBLIQUE) (French Edition)

Many of them would also shoplift, which I find quite funny (especially the Ponomareva story). But it must be added that many of those athletes were "trained" on the geopolitics, politics, and situation of the state they were going to, and not simply sent to a richer country without any preparation. Plus, many of those athletes believed in communism (or at least, in a brighter future for the Soviet Union), at least during the first decades of the Cold War, and that the interpretation they would have of what they would see in Western country was utterly different than what we imagine.

I would send you a link to a very good reference that I really enjoyed reading, but it is only in french... (here is the link anyway, just in case, because I thought it was a great book : https://www.amazon.fr/héros-sport-champions-soviétiques-1930-années/dp/B07KZKCDSV/ref=asc_df_B07KZKCDSV/?tag=googshopfr-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=313731032092&hvpos=1o4&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2737963550103629895&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9056143&hvtargid=pla-696885370444&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=63910952098&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=313731032092&hvpos=1o4&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2737963550103629895&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9056143&hvtargid=pla-696885370444)