Boris Johnson: Putin will use World Cup like Hitler used Olympics

Russia says Foreign Secretary is ‘poisoned with venom of hate’

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Russian president Vladimir Putin speaks at a Fifa World Cup event in Saint Petersburg
(Image credit: Dennis Grombkowski/Getty Images)

Boris Johnson has warned that the Fifa World Cup in Russia risks being turned into a propaganda circus by Vladimir Putin in much the same way that Adolf Hitler hijacked the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

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