• yesman@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I’ve always suspected that many of these kinds of images were staged or propaganda.

    Every so often you’ll see a meme on Reddit with a bunch of American teenagers being athletic in the 60s. The meme suggests that people were healthy and fit back then, but I happen to know that the footage was for a physical fitness push at the time (gotta do more pushups than the commies) and the athletes were far from typical students.