In Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium on June 14, a country that murders journalists, arrests political activists and has spent the last three years slaughtering thousands of Syrian civilians in airstrikes will host the opening match of the 2018 World Cup Finals.

In four years’ time, the next World Cup Finals are scheduled to take place in Qatar, where an estimated 1,200 construction workers, laboring in conditions of near-slavery, have already died building the tournament’s stadiums in suffocating heat.

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