delirium clemens

“The aftermath of the so-called ‘death match’ between the Kiev football team ‘Start’ and a team of Nazi soldiers during World War Two has been hotly debated for decades.

Soviet propaganda at the time insisted the Kievite team, made up of former professionals and amateurs, were shot dead by the Nazi’s, for having beaten and humiliated them on the pitch. A Soviet monument, dedicated to the ‘death match’ stands in the Lobanovskyy stadium in Kiev.

So what really happened? Myths have fostered for years. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian players and their families came forward to tell their side of the story.” > Video report (c) euronews, 2012

>Text on the Ukrainian movie shot on this topic (see link below)

>The Match (trailer)

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