Communism and Football

00:00:04 For more than half of the 20th century

00:02:12 ZIL, the city's giant car plant, controlled Torpedo Moscow.

00:03:49 Nikolai Starostin was the eldest of four brothers.

00:05:54 To Beria, any act of defiance was intolerable.

00:07:48 Stalin had given Spartak his tacit seal of approval.

00:09:25 when Spartak took over the crown from Dynamo.

00:10:56 There's no doubt that in many ways he was unhinged.

00:12:19 but still they were sentenced to ten years in a Siberian gulag.

00:14:43 For the players and the politicians, there was more at stake than just the result.

00:16:42 He was in the centre of the fight of the two...

00:18:17 He should been arrested when his patron Kosarev was arrested and executed.

00:20:35 for what was being described as "the match of the century".

00:22:27 the fluid interchange of positions on the pitch...

00:25:49 In the group stages, they trounced West Germany, 8-3.

00:28:52 in the rain and listen while the national anthem of West Germany, not Hungary, was played in the stadium.

00:33:39 The West looked on as the Soviet Union invaded and quickly

00:35:14 With Streltsov, they were capable of beating anybody.

00:39:17 or the KGB club, Dynamo.

00:42:02 At that time the legal system depended strongly

00:44:16 Streltsov would never speak of his lost time in the Gulag.

00:48:36 The name "Dynamo" had became synonymous with the secret police and Dynamo Berlin was no exception.

00:53:04 But it came at price.

00:57:28 of East Berliners, granted their freedom, walked and ran to the West.

01:09:05 Hungary were invited to play a full-strength England