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The film Match (2012) by the Russian director Andrey Malyukov, also ignores the reports of Ukrainian witnesses and scholars and repeats the Soviet propaganda version. In the film, Russian communists are fighting against the German occupiers.
On August 5, 1942, the Soviet footballers defeated the ‘Flakelf’ team of anti-aircraft gunners, airmen and mechanics of Kiev aerodrome with a score of 5:1.
- Boris Egorov
Jul 18, 2021 · For the Soviet Union, who reconquered the country and imposed strict media laws, the Death Match was used as propaganda to support the new Communist regime. The survivors and witnesses, fearful of both sides, were not forthcoming with their testimonies for many years.
May 22, 2012 · 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...
Oct 24, 2017 · Oliver McManus has a look at the incredible story of the Death Match where 11 brave men stood up to the Nazi regime on a football pitch
Nov 2, 2015 · BY THE MIDDLE of September 1941, just three months after Adolf Hitler’s army had invaded the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic’s capital, Kyiv, was occupied by the Wehrmacht after a cruel and bloody siege that lasted for 72 days.
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Sep 26, 2016 · The Soviet version of the story, backed by some modern historians, claims so, but in 2005, a court in Hamburg dismissed the notion, after an investigation. The investigation concluded several reasons for which the arrested players were shot, none of them being connected to the match.
