Ukraine soccer match

On August 6, 1942, FC Start played the German team Flakelf. There were an estimated 2,000 spectators ukraine soccer match attendance, with each spectator paying a total of five rubles to attend. The Death Match: Dynamo Kiev vs. In taking Kiev, the Germans captured over 600,000 Soviet soldiers.

The city was under a strict occupation regime. 1942 a four-year school for the Ukrainian population was introduced. Youth over 15 years and adults under 60 years old were submitted to labour obligations. Thousands of inhabitants were deported to Germany for forced labour. In autumn of 1943 after the withdrawal of the German troops from Kiev and the reestablishment of Soviet administration, writer Lev Kassil was the first to report about the death of Dynamo players murdered by the Germans. But his report in the newspaper Izvestiya did not mention the football match.

According to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia about 32 million spectators saw it in the Soviet cinemas. The Start players surviving the German occupation did not show up in public. In the first years after World War II, they were suspected as having collaborated with the Germans. The reports about the “Death Match” changed in the mid-sixties.