The Death Match
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 132 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5085-1371-9
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Death Match (Russian: Матч смерти, Ukrainian: Матч смерті, Match smerti - Match of death) is a name for an exhibition association football game in the summer of 1942 between the team of a local bakery employees "Start" (Cyrillic: Старт) — former professional footballers from Dynamo Kyiv and Lokomotyv Kyiv — and soldiers of air defense artillery, pilots and airfield support personnel "Flakelf" (German: Flakelf) (according to James Riordan the Nazi Wehrmacht). Note that Flakelf is an abbreviated combination of the German words Flak (Fliegerabwehrkanone - air defense artillery) and elf - eleven which was used to denote an association football team (such as London XI). The importance of the game lays in the Soviet propaganda that promotes the unshakable will of Soviet players who sacrificed their lives facing an ultimate adversity. Later most of the players received the medal "For Courage". Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию...