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.

00:05:58 Spartak's flagrant refusal to bow to Dynamo was a direct challenge to Beria's control of Soviet Sport.

00:07:52 But Beria was furious.

00:09:29 Starostin, he looked up to the dignitaries' box

00:11:04 And I guess Beria thought it...safe

00:12:30 to Stalin, pleading clemency for her sons.

00:15:28 The demise of CDKA entrenched Beria's Dynamo as the dominant force in Soviet football.

00:16:58 but Nikolai, realising that the situation had become dangerous

00:18:44 The dangerous relationship between football and politics wasn't confined to the Soviet Union.

00:21:10 'I think we're going to have a lot of trouble

00:22:41 and one in particular, Ferenc Puskas

00:26:17 The scene was set, so it seemed, for the magnificent Magyars' greatest triumph.

00:30:10 The Communist leader, Rakosi was furious.

00:34:13 The invasion by the Soviet Union was condemned around the world.

00:36:19 Furtseva was the only female member of the Politburo

00:40:34 the Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev himself

00:42:40 He'd lost a lot of speed, of course, but his talent was still there.

00:46:33 He was a fan of Hertha Berlin Football Club.

00:49:41 Jurgen Croy was the East German goalkeeper.

00:56:03 Those who were successful came to the West with harrowing stories of life under Communism.

00:58:39 Yet despite the ugliness of totalitarian rule, talented individuals and remarkable teams

50:00:00 as they crushed the uprising.